US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 19 for "Polymeric dyes with linker groups comprising deoxyribose" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,833, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Polymeric dyes with linker groups comprising deoxyribose" was invented by Sharat Singh (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Tracy Matray (Snohomish, Wash.), Michael Vanbrunt (Bothell, Wash.) and John McCutcheon (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I):or a stereoisomer, tantomer or salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, L1a, L1b, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, M1, M2, q, w, m and n are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds ...