US Patent Issued to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University on Oct. 20 for "Gold nonoclusters, dopamine biosensors including them, and methods for diagnosing neurological diseases using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,846, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Gold nonoclusters, dopamine biosensors including them, and methods for diagnosing neurological diseases using the same" was invented by Dongil Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea), Hongmei Xu (Seoul, South Korea) and Soomin Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel gold nanoclusters, a dopamine biosensor including the same that may exhibit reliability in a wide detection range, and a method of quantifying dopamine using the same, and provides a method of diagnosing a neur...