US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on April 21 for "Method of labelling viral particles comprising anionic lipids with fluorescently-labelled negatively-charged polynucleotides in the presence of polyvalent cations" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,635, issued on April 21, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method of labelling viral particles comprising anionic lipids with fluorescently-labelled negatively-charged polynucleotides in the presence of polyvalent cations" was invented by Nicole Robb (Oxford, Great Britain), Achillefs Kapanidis (Oxford, Great Britain) and Jonathan Taylor (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of functionalizing a particle, as well as methods of optically tracking a particle, isolating enveloped viral particles from a sample, quantifying enveloped virus particles in ...