US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on May 12 for "Wireless activation of channelrhodopsin via in situ self-assembly of semiconductor quantum dots at the plasma membrane" (Maryland, Wisconsin, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,347, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Wireless activation of channelrhodopsin via in situ self-assembly of semiconductor quantum dots at the plasma membrane" was invented by Okhil K. Nag (Brandywine, Md.), Megan E. Muroski (Milwaukee), Michael H. Stewart (Springfield, Va.), Alexander Efros (Annandale, Va.), Scott Walper (Springfield, Va.), James Delehanty (Washington) and Eunkeu Oh (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum dot (QD)-rhodopsin bioconjugate system uses Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-me...