ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,582, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Light Bio Inc. (Mount Horeb, Wis.).
"Method and agents for detecting luciferase activity" was invented by Il'ya Viktorovich Yampol'skiy (Moscow), Valentin Nikolaevich Petushkov (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Konstantin Viktorovich Purtov (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Natal'ya Sergeevna Rodionova (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and Mikhail Sergeevich Baranov (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and reagents for detecting luciferase in biological samples. The methods and reagents of the present invention allow detecting fungal luciferase or a functional analog thereof."
The patent was fi...