US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften on Aug. 25 for "Method for mapping the surface of a macromolecule" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,829, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Berlin).

"Method for mapping the surface of a macromolecule" was invented by Stefan W. Hell (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to map the surface of a macromolecule, at least one fluorescent probe is introduced into a medium in which the macromolecule is embedded or will be embedded. Then, a plurality of spatial positions of the at least one fluorescent probe with regard to the macromolecule are determined via localization of the at least one singularized fluorescent probe with a simple standard deviation of...