US Patent Issued to Auburn University on Sept. 15 for "Electrochemical detection nanostructure, systems and uses thereof" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,712, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Auburn University (Auburn, Ala.).

"Electrochemical detection nanostructure, systems and uses thereof" was invented by Christopher J. Easley (Auburn, Ala.) and Subramaniam Somasundaram (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are DNA-nanostructures that can be used in an assay to detect and/or quantify an analyte of interest. Aspects of the DNA-nanostructure can include a single DNA molecule composed of hairpin structural motifs, an anchor recognition moiety, and a signal moiety, where the anchor recognition moiety and the signal moiety are in effective proximity to each o...