US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Feb. 10 for "Graphene-biomolecule bioelectronic devices" (Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,769, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Graphene-biomolecule bioelectronic devices" was invented by Alan T. Johnson Jr. (Philadelphia), Ye Lu (Philadelphia), Joseph J. Mitala Jr. (Rockville, Md.), Bohdana Discher (Philadelphia) and Brett R. Goldsmith (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices and methods featuring a nanoelectronic interface between graphene devices (for example, field effect transistors or FETs) and biomolecules such as proteins, which in turn provides a pathway for production of bioelectronic devices that combine functionalities o...