US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Institute For Basic Science on Aug. 11 for "On-site rapid quantification of tetrahydrocannabinol" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,521, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston), Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea) and Institute For Basic Science (Daejeon, South Korea).

"On-site rapid quantification of tetrahydrocannabinol" was invented by Hakho Lee (Acton, Mass.), Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Mass.), Hojeong Yu (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinwoo Cheon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide devices and methods for rapid, quantitative, on-site detection of controlled substances. Devices include a sample processing module and a sensor cartridg...