US Patent Issued to Lahjavida on Oct. 6 for "Near-infrared dyes and conjugates for targeting tumors" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,023, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Lahjavida LLC (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Near-infrared dyes and conjugates for targeting tumors" was invented by Lyle D. Small (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Ruizheng Wang (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conjugate including a tumor-targeting NIR dye coupled to a therapeutic agent via a linker, whereby the dye functions to direct the conjugate and correspondingly, the therapeutic agent, to a target tumor cell population. Additionally, a method of killing tumor cells by directing a conjugate including a tumor-targeting NIR dye coupled to a therapeutic agent via a linker to...