US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 25 for "Deep ultraviolet-excitable water-solvated polymeric dyes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,997, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Deep ultraviolet-excitable water-solvated polymeric dyes" was invented by Yongchao Liang (Irvine, Calif.), Jonathan Hollinger (Poway, Calif.), Brian Wall (Poway, Calif.), David Moureau (San Diego), Lucy Zhao (San Diego) and Glenn P. Bartholomew (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water solvated polymeric dyes having a deep ultraviolet excitation spectrum are provided. The subject polymeric dyes include a light harvesting multichromophore having conjugation-modifying repeat units incorporated into the polymer backbone to provide se...