ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,193, issued on July 7, was assigned to MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, Canada).
"DNAzyme-based sensor for Staphylococcus aureus" was invented by Monsur Ali (Hamilton, Canada), Dawn White (Winnipeg, Canada), Saeed Mohammadi (Ancaster, Canada), John D. Brennan (Dundas, Canada), Yingfu Li (Dundas, Canada) and Alfredo Capretta (Dundas, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to catalytic nucleic acid probes, biosensors and lateral flow biosensor systems and methods and kits of using the probes, biosensors and lateral flow biosensor systems for detecting microorganisms such as Staphylococcus aureus."
The patent was fi...