US Patent Issued to Oregon Health & Science University on April 21 for "Oxazine-based fluorophore compounds for nerve-specific imaging" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,468, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Oxazine-based fluorophore compounds for nerve-specific imaging" was invented by Summer L. Gibbs (West Linn, Ore.), Lei G. Wang (Portland, Ore.) and Connor W. Barth (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention concerns novel oxazine-based fluorophore compounds useful in in vivo nerve imaging, as well as compositions comprising them and methods for their use."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/794,932.

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