US Patent Issued to LUMISTAR BIOTECHNOLOGY, The Governors of the University of Alberta on April 14 for "Genetically encoded fluorescent indicators under optogenetic control and uses thereof" (Canadian, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,016, issued on April 14, was assigned to LUMISTAR BIOTECHNOLOGY INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan) and The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

"Genetically encoded fluorescent indicators under optogenetic control and uses thereof" was invented by Yu-fen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi Shen (Edmonton, Canada), Yong Qian (Edmonton, Canada), Min-wen Chung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Robert Campbell (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and compositions for real-time monitoring cellular calcium ion dynamics by red-shifted genetically encoded indicators under optogenetic control, in which millisecond-t...