ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,572, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO (Bari, Italy).

"Transistor-based biological assay system comprising mating receptacle plate and gate electrode plate" was invented by Fabrizio Torricelli (Brescia, Italy), Luisa Torsi (Bari, Italy), Gaetano Scamarcio (Bari, Italy) and Zsolt Miklos Kovacs-Vajna (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for biological assay includes a first plate having a plurality of protrusions, a second plate configured for mating with said first plate, the second plate including a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle being configured to receive at l...