ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,120, issued on July 7, was assigned to Capital Medical University (Beijing).

"Fluorescently-traceable amino acid derivative and preparation methods and use thereof" was invented by Yuji Wang (Beijing), Yanming Wang (Beijing), Di Zhu (Beijing), Yu Lu (Beijing), Botao Liu (Beijing), Aijuan Qu (Beijing) and Hao Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fluorescently-traceable amino acid derivative and a preparation method and use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of biomedicine. In the present disclosure, an amino acid skeleton of the amino acid derivative is modified mainly by a fluorescently...