US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES on April 29 for "Fluorescence scanning system for analytical ultracentrifugation" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,265, issued on April 29, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Bethesda, Md.).

"Fluorescence scanning system for analytical ultracentrifugation" was invented by Peter W. Schuck (Bethesda, Md.), John W. Kakareka (Bethesda, Md.), Thomas J. Pohida (Bethesda, Md.), George Patterson (Bethesda, Md.) and Hauying Zhao (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides various embodiments of a fluorescence scanning system having a sample holder with a sample suspended within that is rotated by a centrifuge such that the sample is illumi...