US Patent Issued to University Of Delaware on March 18 for "Biofunctional thiophene monomers and polymers thereof for electronic biomedical devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,582, issued on March 18, was assigned to University Of Delaware (Newark, Del.).

"Biofunctional thiophene monomers and polymers thereof for electronic biomedical devices" was invented by David C. Martin (Lincoln University, Pa.), Samadhan Suresh Nagane (Maharashtra, India) and Peter Sitarik (Fleetwood, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The functionalized 3,4-alkylenedioxythiophene (ADOT+) monomers can be represented by a chemical formula (CR1R2)(CR3R4)(CR4R5)xO2C4H2S, wherein x=0 or 1; wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is independently selected from hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl moiety, and a heteroatom-containing functional grou...