US Patent Issued to Scanogen on May 6 for "Detection units and methods for detecting a target analyte" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,741, issued on May 6, was assigned to Scanogen Inc. (Baltimore).

"Detection units and methods for detecting a target analyte" was invented by Alfredo Andres Celedon (Columbia, Md.), Saravana Radha Krishna Murthy (Gaithersburg, Md.), Zhiguang Xu (Baltimore), Danielle Elise Schultz (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Troy Allen Horn (Reisterstown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to detection units and methods for detecting one or more target analytes in a sample using a complex formed by a target and first and second probes, wherein the complex comprises an elongated region, a particle that is coupled to the firs...