ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,822, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nanohmics Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"System and method for analyte detection" was invented by Mark E. Lucente (Austin, Texas), John Bruno (Kyle, Texas) and Andrew Foley (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining the presence of a selected analyte in a sample include an all-dielectric, metasurface sensor having one or more arrays of subwavelength-scale, dielectric nanopillars having anisotropic cross-sections. Nanopillars in selected regions of the metasurface sensor may be functionalized with binders for selectively binding the selected analyte. Methods for de...