ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,072, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE COMTE (Besancon, France).

"Acoustic biosensor assay assembly" was invented by Aleksandr Oseev (Besancon, France) and Therese Leblois (Besancon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biosensor assembly includes a plurality of biosensor units which are juxtaposed next to one another. Respective portions of a continuous piezoelectric monocrystal layer are dedicated to the biosensor units, and Bragg solid bulk structures are arranged on the piezoelectric layer between the portions thereof that pertain to neighboring biosensor units. Each Bragg structure has a pattern repetitio...