ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,622, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PROTOMER TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Indianapolis).

"Conjugates for selective responsiveness to vicinal diols" was invented by Alborz Mahdavi (Pasadena, Calif.), Ryan Kelly Spencer (Pasadena, Calif.), Jack Joseph Steele (Pasadena, Calif.), JingXin Liang (Pasadena, Calif.), Mirna Ekram Anwar Shaker (Pasadena, Calif.), Diao Chen (Pasadena, Calif.) and Sachitanand Mali (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sensors that can selectively bind to specific vicinal diols in the presence of other diols. These boronated vicinal diol-responsive sensor compo...