ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,415, issued on June 10, was assigned to University of Tehran (Iran).
"Antibody-free rapid detection of bacteria" was invented by Yaser Abdi (Tehran, Iran), Shahrzad Molavi (Tehran, Iran) and Ali Bozorg (Tehran, Iran).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a species of bacteria in a sample solution. The method includes putting the sample solution in contact with an array of zinc oxide nanorods on a gate region of a field effect transistor (FET) biosensor, applying an alternating current (AC) voltage between source and drain electrodes of the FET biosensor, applying a first direct current (DC) voltage of V1 to the sample ...