US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on Sept. 22 for "DNA-based voltmeter for organelles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,772, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"DNA-based voltmeter for organelles" was invented by Yamuna Krishnan (Chicago), Aneesh Tazhe Veetil (Chicago) and Anand Saminathan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods for determining membrane potential across membranes of organelles and cells. More particularly, this disclosure relates to nucleic add complexes comprising a voltage-sensing fluorophore conjugated to one single-stranded nucleic acid molecule and methods for using such nucleic acid complexes in determining the membrane potential."

The patent was filed on...