US Patent Issued to Imperial College Innovations on March 17 for "Devices and method for detecting an amplification event" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,612, issued on March 17, was assigned to Imperial College Innovations Ltd. (London).

"Devices and method for detecting an amplification event" was invented by Pantelis Georgiou (London), Ahmad Monirii (London), Nicolas Moser (London) and Jesus Rodriguez Manzano (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed herein for detecting an amplification reaction in a solution containing a biological sample using an array of ion sensors. The amplification reaction is indicative of the presence of a nucleic acid. The method comprises monitoring a signal from each respective sensor of the array of ion sensors, detecting a change i...