ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,986, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platform for analysis" was invented by Xing Yi Ling (Singapore), In Yee Phang (Singapore), Gia Chuong Phan Quang (Singapore), Siew Kheng Boong (Singapore), Howard Yi Fan Sim (Singapore), Sher Lin Charlynn Koh (Singapore), Shi Xuan Leong (Singapore) and Yong Xiang Leong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) chip for generating multiple SERS profiles simultaneously from one or more analytes suspected to be in a sample. The SERS chip includes on...