US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on April 15 for "Gold nanoparticle-fluorescent hybrid material and method for preparing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,880, issued on April 15, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Gold nanoparticle-fluorescent hybrid material and method for preparing the same" was invented by Hye Jin Lee (Daegu, South Korea) and Eun Seo Goh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a gold nanoparticle-fluorescent hybrid material with improved fluorescence intensity and stability and a method for preparing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a gold nanoparticle-fluorescent hybrid material including gold nanoparticles, each of whi...