US Patent Issued to Auragent Bioscience on Feb. 24 for "Ultrabright fluorescent nanocomposite structures for enhanced fluorescent bioassays" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,544, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Auragent Bioscience LLC (St. Louis).

"Ultrabright fluorescent nanocomposite structures for enhanced fluorescent bioassays" was invented by Clare Kercher (St. Louis), Qisheng Jiang (St. Louis) and Scott L. Crick (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a fluorescent nanocomposite. The fluorescent nanocomposite structure may include a plasmonic nanostructure comprising having at least one localized surface plasmon resonance wavelength (LambdaLSPR), at least one spacer coating, at least one fluorescent agent having a maximum excitation wavelength (LambdaEX), and at least one p...