ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,364, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).
"Fluorescence spectral shape analysis for analyte recognition" was invented by Yun Huang (San Antonio), Zhiliang Li (San Antonio), Kirk Schanze (Helotes, Texas) and April Risinger (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventors describe the use of a polymeric marker, in certain aspects the polymeric marker is conjugated polymeric marker such as P-C-3. Other aspects are directed to methods of analyzing the conjugated marker fluorescence spectral shape, which is strongly dependent on the local/ionic environment. This fl...