US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Nov. 25 for "Single molecule imaging" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,953, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Single molecule imaging" was invented by Nongjian Tao (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Shaopeng Wang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Pengfei Zhang (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting single molecules includes binding the single molecules to a surface of an optically transparent substrate, irradiating the surface of the substrate with light having an incident angle selected to achieve total reflection of the light, thereby scattering light from the surface and from the single molecules bound to the surface, an...