US Patent Issued to Washington University on Sept. 9 for "Micro-bioelectrochemical cell devices and methods of detecting electron flows" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,452, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Micro-bioelectrochemical cell devices and methods of detecting electron flows" was invented by John Mark Meacham (St. Louis), Arpita Bose (St. Louis), Michael Binkley (St. Louis) and Karthikeyan Rengasamy (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-bioelectrochemical cell (Mu-BEC) device is disclosed that includes from 4 to 96 microfluidically connected chambers, in which each chamber encloses a volume of about 1 MuL to 2 MuL. A working electrode, reference electrode, and counting electrode contacts each volume. The Mu-BEC device includes a support lay...