US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION on June 10 for "Compositions and methods for high-sensitivity immunoassays" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,448, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for high-sensitivity immunoassays" was invented by Leon S. Farhi (Charlottesville, Va.), Alexander L. Klibanov (Charlottesville, Va.) and Bruce D. Gaylinn (Louisa, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lanthanide chelate lipid nanoparticles, and methods of their synthesis and use are described. Biological molecules labeled with the lipid nanoparticles, useful in bioaffinity assays with improved sensitivities are also described."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2017, under Application No. 16/322,679.

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