US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on July 22 for "Non-invasive cancer detection and analysis by single-molecule imaging" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,980, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Non-invasive cancer detection and analysis by single-molecule imaging" was invented by Chih-Ping Mao (Baltimore), Shih-Chin Wang (Baltimore), Jie Xiao (Baltimore), T. C. Wu (Baltimore) and Chien-Fu Hung (Timmonium, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are chips for detecting a target in a sample including a microfluidic flow chamber comprising one or more flow channels having a capture surface and at least one micromixer. Described are methods of using this chip wherein targets are identified by total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF)." ...