ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,576, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Chemiluminescent probes" was invented by Chongzhao Ran (Winchester, Mass.), Jing Yang (Melrose, Mass.), Wei Yin (Melrose, Mass.), Biyue Zhu (Malden, Mass.) and Fan Yang (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a compound of Formula (I): A-L-B (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein A, L, and B are as described herein. Compositions comprising the compounds of Formula (I) (and optionally a fluorescent probe) are also provided, as well as the methods of (i) using the compound of formula (I) for identif...