US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on July 14 for "Optical COVID-19 detection system" (Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,011, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Optical COVID-19 detection system" was invented by Vikas Berry (Chicago), Ngoc Hoang Lan Nguyen (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sungjoon Kim (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides example devices and methods for making and using the devices for rapid testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The example device includes (a) a substrate coupled to a metal oxide layer, (b) a graphene layer coupled to the metal oxide layer, (c) a chemical or biochemical linker functionalized with the graphene layer, and (d) a plurality of S...