US Patent Issued to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI on Sept. 1 for "Multiplex plasmonic sensors on the longitudinal side of an optical fiber" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,985, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Mo.).

"Multiplex plasmonic sensors on the longitudinal side of an optical fiber" was invented by Mahmoud Almasri (Columbia, Mo.), Jiayu Liu (Columbia, Mo.) and Sura Muhsin (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasmonic sensor achieving high sensitivities by using a metallized nanoantennae array patterned on the longitudinal side of a fiber optic cable is disclosed herein. The sensor is capable of single and multiplex detection of biomarkers, viruses, food and waterborne pathogens, proteins, and other chemical and biological specim...