ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,626, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Systems and methods for measuring kinetic response of chemical sensor elements" was invented by Gregory J. Sherwood (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Justin Theodore Nelson (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Steven Koester (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein include a kinetic response system for measuring analyte presence on a chemical sensor element. The chemical sensor element includes one or more discrete binding detectors, each discrete binding detector including a graphene varactor. The kinetic response system includes a ...