ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,283, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for detecting tyrosine residue in sample, and terbium compound to be used for such detection" was invented by Katsumi Maeda (Tokyo) and Masayoshi Tsuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example objective of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting a tyrosine residue in a sample and a compound that can be used in the method. One aspect of the present embodiment relates to a method for detecting a tyrosine residue in a sample, wherein fluorescence emission from a reaction product of a terbium compound represented by the predetermined formula and a...