ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,538, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Stem-loop receptor-based field-effect transistor sensor devices for small-molecule target detection under physiological salt concentrations" was invented by Milan Stojanovic (Ridgewood, N.J.), Anne Milasincic Andrews (Los Angeles), Kyungae Yang (New York), Paul S. Weiss (Los Angeles) and Nako Nakatsuka (Adliswill, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for detecting at least one target molecule in a sample are provided. The devices comprise a fie...