US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Dec. 16 for "Water-soluble polymeric dyes having pendant chromophores" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,516, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Water-soluble polymeric dyes having pendant chromophores" was invented by Glenn Bartholomew (San Marcos, Calif.), Yongchao Liang (Irvine, Calif.), Brian Wall (Poway, Calif.) and David Moureau (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water soluble light harvesting multichromophores having pendant chromophore groups are provided. The light harvesting multichromophore has a polymeric backbone including non-conjugated repeat units and a plurality of pendant donor chromophore groups linked to a non-conjugated repeat unit of the polymeric backbone. A...