US Patent Issued to Binx Health on April 14 for "Compounds and their use in analytical methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,703, issued on April 14, was assigned to Binx Health Ltd. (Trowbridge, Great Britain).

"Compounds and their use in analytical methods" was invented by Barrie Marsh (Trowbridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Sharp (Bath, Great Britain), Stephen Flower (Melksham, Great Britain) and Christopher Frost (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compounds of general formula I are used as labels in an electrochemical assay: in which: Fc and Fc' are substituted or unsubstituted ferrocenyl moieties, X is a C1 to C6 alkylene chain which is optionally interrupted by -O- or -NH-; Y is a C1 to C6 alkylene chain which is optionally interrupte...