US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 7 for "Indodicarbocyanine phosphoramidites with bathochromically shifted absorption and emission, and tunable hydrophobicity" (District Of Columbia, Idaho, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,281, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Indodicarbocyanine phosphoramidites with bathochromically shifted absorption and emission, and tunable hydrophobicity" was invented by Igor L. Medintz (Washington), Joseph Melinger (Washington), William B. Knowlton (Boise, Idaho), Bernard Yurke (Boise, Idaho), Kimihiro Susumu (Washington), Sang Ho Lee (Washington), Adam Meares (Fairfax, Va.), Divita Mathur (Fairfax, Va.), Olga A. Mass (Boise, Idaho), Jeunghoon Lee (Boise, Idaho) and Ryan D. Pensack (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark O...