US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Oct. 27 for "Methods and devices for bacteria detection using flow permeable sensors" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,000, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Methods and devices for bacteria detection using flow permeable sensors" was invented by Dionysios Christodouleas (Winchester, Mass.), Parthena Chorti (Raleigh, N.C.), Abbas Parvez Kazi (Lowell, Mass.) and Al Monsur Jiaul Haque (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for the detection of bacteria in liquid samples (e.g., water, beverages, juices etc.) or bacteria in liquid media derived from solid samples incubated in broth media are disclosed. The devices and methods may be used to analyze any volume of sample (from f...