US Patent Issued to The University Court of the University of Edinburgh on Sept. 16 for "Small tunable fluorophores for the detection and imaging of biomolecules" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,926, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The University Court of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

"Small tunable fluorophores for the detection and imaging of biomolecules" was invented by Marc Vendrell (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Antonio Fernandez (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Sam Benson (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Nicole D. Barth (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Fabio De Moliner (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to small, conjugatable, orthogonal and tunable fluorophores for imaging of small bioactive molecules. The invention further relates to processes for the prepa...