US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on May 13 for "Electrochemical biosensor and uses thereof" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,485, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Electrochemical biosensor and uses thereof" was invented by Changchun Liu (Farmington, Conn.) and Ziyue Li (Storrs, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an immobilization-free, electrochemical method of detecting a target DNA sequence in a sample. The method includes: incubating the sample with a detection mixture, applying an electric field including an alternating current electric field and a direct current offset to the detection mixture to concentrate nucleic acids in the sample and the nucleic acid probe on a positively cha...