ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,443, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Nagoya, Japan).

"Compound, cellular vesicle staining agent, and method of fluorescent staining for cellular vesicles" was invented by Hiroshi Takemori (Gifu, Japan), Kyoji Furuta (Gifu, Japan) and Yoko Morita (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a novel compound that specifically conjugates with intracellular and/or extracellular vesicles, a cellular vesicle staining agent, and a method of fluorescent staining for cellular vesicles. The object can be achieved by a compound express...