US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zuf Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V. on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for detecting particles, like biological macromolecules or nanoparticles" (German, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,599, issued on April 21, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zuf Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for detecting particles, like biological macromolecules or nanoparticles" was invented by Vahid Sandoghdar (Bamberg, Germany), Marek Piliarik (Libeznice, Czech Republic) and Katharina Koenig (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting particles, e. g. proteins, after separation of particles based on their specific features, e.g. charge, size, shape, density, as series of single light scattering events created by the individual particles is described. The particles are s...