US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on April 8 for "Electrochemical device for identifying electroactive analyte and related methods thereof" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,781, issued on April 8, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Electrochemical device for identifying electroactive analyte and related methods thereof" was invented by Cheng Yang (Lexington, Mass.) and B. Jill Venton (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical device for identifying electroactive analytes. The device includes a substrate; a sample region; a counter electrode; a reference electrode; a working electrode disposed in communication with the substrate, and the working electrode may be an electron conducting fiber. Further, the counter electrode, refere...