US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Feb. 24 for "Bacterial biosensor system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,604, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Bacterial biosensor system" was invented by Casim A. Sarkar (Minneapolis), Samira M. Azarin (Minneapolis) and Qiuge Zhang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a biosensor on the bacterial cell surface for sensing and responding to extracellular molecules. Related methods of using the bacterial cells to inducibly express a protein of interest and/or a bioactive RNA molecule in a subject are disclosed. Related methods of using the bacterial cells to inducibly express a protein of interest or to detect a target...