US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 3 for "Cell-free biosensors to detect creatinine, creatine, and sarcosine" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,184, issued on March 3, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Cell-free biosensors to detect creatinine, creatine, and sarcosine" was invented by Mark Styczynski (Atlanta), Elizabeth Hutson Chilton (Atlanta) and Emily Heckard (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a biosensor that can facilitate detection of the molecules creatinine, creatine and/or sarcosine in a minimal-equipment, portable, and low-cost fashion. Some aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and systems to enable quantitative measurement of certain biomarkers at the point of care withou...