US Patent Issued to Zoetis Services on Aug. 11 for "Signal amplification in plasmonic specific-binding partner assays" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,510, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zoetis Services LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Signal amplification in plasmonic specific-binding partner assays" was invented by Rajesh K. Mehra (Parsippany, N.J.), Vincent Chiang (Parsippany, N.J.), Kenneth P. Aron (Parsippany, N.J.) and Asher Krell (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to analyte detection devices and methods of using such devices to detect minute quantities of a target analyte in a sample. In particular, the invention provides an analyte detection device comprising a plurality of composite metallic nanostructures conjugated to analyte bind...