ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,462, issued on Feb. 10.
"Composite high-brightness fluorophores with controllable spectra shapes and method of using composite highbrightness fluorophores" was invented by Yoke Khin Yap (Houghton, Mich.), Dongyan Zhang (Houghton, Mich.), Nazmiye Yapici (South Lyon, Mich.) and Xiuling Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound includes a first linker having a first end connected to the carrier, a second linker having a first end connected to the carrier, a third linker having a first end connected to the carrier, a first fluorescent entity connected to a second end of the first linker, a second fluorescent entity ...