ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,165, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Two-dimensional stimuli-responsive covalent organic frameworks with high intrinsic conductivity" was invented by Katherine A. Mirica (Hanover, N.H.), Zheng Meng (West Lebanon, N.H.) and Robert M. Stolz (Lyme, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of sensing an analyte in a sample by: (1) exposing the sample to an electrode that includes a covalent-organic framework with a plurality of metal-coordinated aromatic units that are linked to one another by aromatic linkers; (2) detecting a chan...