US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Feb. 3 for "Micro-balance biosensors to detect whole viruses" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,915, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Micro-balance biosensors to detect whole viruses" was invented by Massood Tabib-Azar (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods of detecting viral biomolecules such as viruses through frequency response. A method (200) of detecting a vims includes exposing (210) a sensor surface to a fluid sample containing a suspected virus. The sensor surface can be a surface of a resonator having a clean resonant frequency from about 1 MHz to about 1 GHz. The surface can be modified with molecular recognition...