US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC on Aug. 5 for "Biosensor and method for detection of analytes" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,376, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC (Notre Dame, Ind.).

"Biosensor and method for detection of analytes" was invented by Jiayun Hu (Notre Dame, Ind.), Paul W. Bohn (Notre Dame, Ind.), Marvin J. Miller (South Bend, Ind.) and Manuka Ghosh (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a biosensor for detection of analytes and methods of using the same for detecting bacterial infection in a subject. The biosensor comprises an array of gold nanoparticles, biotinylated polyethylene glycol thiol, polyethylene glycol thiol, at least one neutravidin molecule, and at least one affinity reagent imm...