US Patent Issued to CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Methods of modifying a liquid sample containing an analyte so as to increase SERS signal intensity of the analyte, as well as a probe for remote sensing of an analyte using SERS" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,481, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY (Sydney, Canada).

"Methods of modifying a liquid sample containing an analyte so as to increase SERS signal intensity of the analyte, as well as a probe for remote sensing of an analyte using SERS" was invented by Xu Zhang (Sydney, Canada), Albert Collins Nganou Assonkeng (Sydney, Canada) and Andrew James Carrier (Sydney, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying a liquid sample containing an analyte so as to increase SERS signal intensity of the analyte is provided. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: providing the liquid sample ...