ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,631, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).
"Light microscopy chips and data analysis methodology for quantitative localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensing and imaging" was invented by Marc P. Raphael (Washington), Joseph A Christodoulides (Alexandria, Va.) and Jeff M Byers (Fairfax Station, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the spatiotemporal mapping of receptor-ligand binding kinetics in localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) imaging using a chip for LSPR imaging having a glass coverslip compati...