ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,609, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compound and labeled biological substance using the same" was invented by Yoshinori Kanazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuoki Komiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a compound of Formula (1) and a labeled biological substance having the compound.R1 to R6, R11 to R13, and R22 to R29 represent specific groups, and n is an integer of 1 to 3.One selected from R1, R2, R5, R22 to R25 and one selected from R3, R4, R6, and R26 to R29 are bonded through a linking group LL.The linking group LL represents a linking ...