ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,136, issued on May 12, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium).
"Sensor device" was invented by Willem Van Roy (Bierbeek, Belgium), Tim Stakenborg (Heverlee, Belgium) and Kris Covens (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (1) for sensing an analyte, the device (1) comprises at least a sample inlet (10) for receiving a sample, affinity probes (111) selected to have a preferential binding to the analyte, a transducer (11) sensitive to a characteristic of the analyte and/or a label attached to the analyte, the transducer not being a FET transducer, and a desalting unit (13) for desalting the received sample."
The...