US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on July 14 for "Continuous sensing with adapters and aptamers" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,010, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Continuous sensing with adapters and aptamers" was invented by Jason Heikenfeld (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for detecting the presence of, or measuring the concentration of amount of, at least one analyte in a sample fluid. The device includes a sensor fluid (18), a plurality of adapter molecules (980) in the sensor fluid that are capable of binding to an analyte, a plurality of aptamers (970) in the sensor fluid that are capable of binding to the analyte when analyte is bound to one or more adapter molecules of the plur...