ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,531, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Method for detecting virus using SSDNA functionalized sensor" was invented by Debashis Chanda (Oviedo, Fla.) and Abraham Vazquez-Guardado (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for detecting a biomarker within a sample of blood. The method may include processing the sample of blood with a microfluidic blood plasma separator and a plasmonic array biosensor, and flowing the sample of blood over a sensing surface of the plasmonic array biosensor. The sensing surface of the plasmonic array biosensor may h...