US Patent Issued to University of Windsor on Feb. 24 for "QCM with electrode configuration based on distribution of area for improving mass sensitivity (DAIS)" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,577, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada).

"QCM with electrode configuration based on distribution of area for improving mass sensitivity (DAIS)" was invented by Arezoo Emadi (Windsor, Canada) and Siddharth Swaminathan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a quartz crystal microbalance comprising a pair of electrodes and a quartz crystal disposed therebetween, one said electrode operable as a sensing electrode for interacting with an analyte, wherein said sensing electrode comprises an array of sensing electrode members positioned within a sen...