US Patent Issued to SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Light-assisted portable sensor for the detection of harmful pathogens" (Omani Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,590, issued on April 21, was assigned to SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY (Al Khodh, Oman).

"Light-assisted portable sensor for the detection of harmful pathogens" was invented by Htet Htet Kyaw (Al Khodh, Oman), Myo Tay Zar Myint (Al Khodh, Oman), Mohammed Zahir Al-Abri (Al Khodh, Oman) and Salim Hamoud Al-Harthi (Al Khodh, Oman).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-assisted portable sensor for detecting harmful pathogens is provided. The portable sensor device includes a sensor chip; a conducting surface disposed on the sensor chip, tri-sodium citrate and chitosan-coated gold nanoparticles mounted on the conducting surface; a reference e...