US Patent Issued to ELITECHGROUP MDX on Aug. 5 for "Nitrodiarylethenes as fluorescence quenchers for nucleic acid probes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,315, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ELITECHGROUP MDX LLC (Bothell, Wash.).

"Nitrodiarylethenes as fluorescence quenchers for nucleic acid probes" was invented by Eugeny A. Lukhtanov (Bothell, Wash.), Noah Scarr (Seattle) and Viachaslau Bernat (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluorescence quenching nitrodiarylethene analogs are useful in oligonucleotide conjugates and probes. These analogs, whose absorption spectra are substantially blue-shifted relatively to emission spectra of common fluorophores (such as fluorescein), do not need to rely on spectral overlap of quencher absorbance and fluorophore's emission for their...