ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,558, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and CZ BIOHUB SF LLC (San Francisco).

"Point of care and improved detection and quantification of biomolecules" was invented by Adam Abate (Oakland, Calif.), Harish Vasudevan (Oakland, Calif.), Peng Xu (Oakland, Calif.), Krzysztof Langer (Oakland, Calif.), Xiangpeng Li (Oakland, Calif.), Leqian Liu (Oakland, Calif.), Chen Sun (Oakland, Calif.) and Daniel Weisgerber (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides materials and methods for detecting the presence of a target, such as a nucleic acid, biomo...