US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for rapid detection of bacterial contamination" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,240, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore).

"Method and apparatus for rapid detection of bacterial contamination" was invented by Govind Rao (Ellicott City, Md.), Yordan Kostov (Ellicott City, Md.), Mustafa Al-Adhami (Silver Spring, Md.) and Chandrasekhar Gurramkonda (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for detecting the presence of bacteria in a sample are provided. A multi-step process for sample preparation is utilized and a microfluidic device is disclosed. The detection is performed using microfluidics and physical changes in multiple samples in different...