US Patent Issued to The University Court of the University of Glasgow on July 1 for "Apparatus and method for biomarker detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,610, issued on July 1, was assigned to The University Court of the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for biomarker detection" was invented by David Robert Sime Cumming (East Dunbartonshire, Great Britain) and Valerio Francesco Annese (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomarker detection apparatus in which a CMOS-based chip is used to generate independent detection signals from a reaction zone that receives a biological sample, where the biological sample is provided to both a test region and positive and negative control regions within the reaction zone. The independent detect...