US Patent Issued to Mainline Scientific on July 7 for "Sample holder for surface plasmon resonance and plasmon-waveguide resonance apparatus" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,753, issued on July 7, was assigned to Mainline Scientific LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Sample holder for surface plasmon resonance and plasmon-waveguide resonance apparatus" was invented by Yousheng Mao (Hockessin, Del.), Shouwen Xu (Shanghai), Han Zhang (Williamsville, N.Y.) and Ting Wang (Berwyn, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a removable sample holder for analytical instruments or apparatuses that utilizes a prism. For example, sample devices of the invention can be used in a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, a plasmon-waveguided resonance (PWR) spectroscopic device, as well as other sp...