US Patent Issued to AAT Bioquest on May 13 for "Condensed polycyclic conjugated polymers and their use for biological detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,383, issued on May 13, was assigned to AAT Bioquest Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Condensed polycyclic conjugated polymers and their use for biological detection" was invented by Zhenjun Diwu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haitao Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jixiang Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qin Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ruogu Peng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluorescent water soluble conjugated polymers including polycyclic aromatic comonomers are provided. The conjugated polymers can be linked to an acceptor fluorescent dye. The conjugated polymers find use in conjugates with biological substrates having applications in a v...