US Patent Issued to On Target Laboratories on July 7 for "Methods of manufacture and synthesis of fluorescent dye compounds and uses thereof" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,940, issued on July 7, was assigned to On Target Laboratories Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods of manufacture and synthesis of fluorescent dye compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Sumith A. Kularatne (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Pravin Gagare (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to synthesizing and utilizing fluorescent dye compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Conjugation of amino acid groups to the fluorescent dyes increase specificity and detection of the compound. Methods of manufacture and synthesis of the compounds for use thereof in diagnostic imaging ar...