MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621053542 A) filed by Sage University on April 27, 2026, for Apparatus And Method For Electrochemical Detection Of Pathogenic Microorganisms In Food Sample.
Inventors include Dr. Prashant Jain; Ms. Sakshi Agrawal; Dr. Mukesh Kumar Malviya; Nancy Singh; and Vikas Parmar.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT The present disclosure relates to electrochemical detection of pathogenic microorganisms in food samples. The apparatus (102) includes a disposable test cartridge (104) having a lysis chamber (106) fluidically connected to a lateral flow chamber (108), and an electrode chamber (110) arranged in a vertical-horizontal- vertical configuration that transports food samples via gravitational force and capillary action. A screen-printed electrode array (112) within the electrode chamber (110) includes carbon working electrodes (114) aligned with nitrocellulose membrane strips (116) in the lateral flow chamber (108). A reader instrument (118) incorporates a potentiostat integrated circuit (120) electrically connected to the electrode array (112) and a hardware processor (122). The processor (122) applies a fixed electrical potential, receives per-electrode amperometric current measurements, computes integrated charge, and compares results against stored threshold values. Each comparison maps to a corresponding nitrocellulose membrane strip (116), generating a result signal indicating presence or absence of specific pathogenic bacterial species. FIG. 1
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