ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,577, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Nederland B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands).
"Rapid magnetic biosensor" was invented by Thea Van Der Wijk (Bunnik, Netherlands), Menno Willem Jose Prins (Rosmalen, Netherlands) and Richard Joseph Marinus Schroeders (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and (bio)sensor systems. Herein, magnetic fields are applied in order to transport magnetic particles laterally over a sensor surface with analyte specific probes. The methods of the invention allow the specific binding of magnetic particles to the sensor surface, while ...