ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,301, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cardea Bio Inc. (San Diego).

"Chemically-sensitive field effect transistors, systems, and methods for manufacturing and using the same" was invented by Brett R. Goldsmith (San Diego), Mitchell Lerner (San Diego) and Paul Hoffman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a sensor chip fabricated on a semiconductor wafer, the sensor chip may include a graphene channel patterned in a graphene layer disposed on a dielectric substrate. The sensor chip may include a first electrode formed in electrode material so as to form one or more of an edge side contact or a top side con...