US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on March 25 for "Silicon-substituted rhodamine dyes and dye conjugates" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,477, issued on March 25, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Silicon-substituted rhodamine dyes and dye conjugates" was invented by Jongtae Yang (Eugene, Ore.), Xin Wang (Eugene, Ore.), Yi-Zhen Hu (Eugene, Ore.), Kyle Gee (Springfield, Ore.), Aimei Chen (Eugene, Ore.) and Aleksey Rukavishnikov (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon-substituted rhodamine compounds are disclosed herein. Also described herein are SiR dyes comprising at least one vinyl group attached to the Si atom (10 position) of the SiR dye. Derivatives, functionalized versions, conjugates, kits, related synthetic methods and us...