US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on April 15 for "Hydrophilic high quantum yield acridinium esters with improved stability and fast light emission" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,708, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Hydrophilic high quantum yield acridinium esters with improved stability and fast light emission" was invented by Anand Natrajan (Manchester, N.H.), David Sharpe (Foxborough, Mass.), Qingping Jiang (East Walpole, Mass.) and David Wen (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrophilic, high quantum yield, chemiluminescent acridinium compounds with increased light output, improved stability, fast light emission and decreased non specific binding are disclosed. The chemiluminescent acridinium esters possess hydrophilic, branched,...