US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on July 29 for "Aldehyde and ketone receptor modification of graphene" (Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,815, issued on July 29, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Aldehyde and ketone receptor modification of graphene" was invented by Blair K. Troudt (St. Paul, Minn.), Philippe Pierre Joseph Buhlmann (Minneapolis), Steven Koester (Edina, Minn.) and Xue Zhen (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to chemical sensors based on the non-covalent surface modification of graphene with compounds containing hydrazine or hydroxylamine functional groups for the detection of aldehyde and ketone-bearing analytes. In an embodiment, a medical device is included having a graph...