US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Surface enhanced raman scattering nanoparticles and their use in detecting and imaging oxidative stress" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,429, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Surface enhanced raman scattering nanoparticles and their use in detecting and imaging oxidative stress" was invented by Avnesh S. Thakor (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mehdi Razavi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanoparticles and methods of using them for detecting reactive oxygen species are disclosed. In particular, methods of using SERS nanoparticles to detect and quantify reactive oxygen species and monitor oxidative stress and disease-relevant chan...