US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Reagent for fluorescence imaging of lipid droplets in cell and tissue" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,194, issued on May 20, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY (Gunma, Japan).

"Reagent for fluorescence imaging of lipid droplets in cell and tissue" was invented by Toshitada Yoshihara (Gunma, Japan), Ryo Maruyama (Gunma, Japan) and Seiji Tobita (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a fluorescent reagent capable of highly sensitive imaging of a lipid droplet at a level ranging from cultured cells to individuals. A lipid droplet detection reagent including a compound represented by the following General Formula (I) is provided.In the formula, m represents an integ...