US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Sept. 2 for "Multiplexed detection of toxins using graphene-based aptasensors" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,260, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Multiplexed detection of toxins using graphene-based aptasensors" was invented by Alan T. Johnson Jr. (Philadelphia), Jinglei Ping (Gaithersburg, Md.), Steven Vitale (Collingswood, N.J.) and Chengyu Wen (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor device, comprising: a portion of graphene and/or graphene oxide in electronic communication with a gold source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, or any combination thereof; and an aptamer in electrical communication with the portion of graphene and/or gr...