US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on June 23 for "Particle-based sensors and methods using particle-based sensors for detection of analytes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,416, issued on June 23, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Particle-based sensors and methods using particle-based sensors for detection of analytes" was invented by Zhenpeng Qin (Allen, Texas), Yaning Liu (Richardson, Texas), Jeffrey S. Kahn (Plano, Texas), Leonidas Bleris (Allen, Texas) and Haihang Ye (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to particle-based assays for the detection of analytes. Using various combinations of particular technologies, including gold nanorods, silver nanoparticles, gold/silver nanoshells, gold/silver nanocages and nanobubble detecti...