US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on May 19 for "Label free analyte detection by electronic desalting and field effect transistors" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,589, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Label free analyte detection by electronic desalting and field effect transistors" was invented by Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Ill.), Vikhram Vilasur Swaminathan (Redwood City, Calif.), Bobby Reddy Jr. (Savoy, Ill.), Eric M. Salm (Champaign, Ill.) and Carlos Duarte-Guevara (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and devices for the label free detection of analytes in solution, including analytes suspended in a biological fluid. A field effect transistor (FET) is positioned in close proximity to a paired s...