ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,773, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City) and TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (Lubbock, Texas).

"Microfluidic microparticle-labeled impedance sensor array for enhancing bioassay sensitivity" was invented by Jungkyu Kim (Salt Lake City) and Ali Khodayari Bavil (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices and methods for improved detection and quantitation of biomolecules. Devices and methods may include a microfluidic biosensing platform for measuring electrical impedance changes in the presence of target analytes from sinusoidal input voltages to improv...