US Patent Issued to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 28 for "Bifunctional aggregation-induced emission luminogen for monitoring and killing of multidrug-resistant bacteria" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,109, issued on July 28, was assigned to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hong Kong).

"Bifunctional aggregation-induced emission luminogen for monitoring and killing of multidrug-resistant bacteria" was invented by Benzhong Tang (Hong Kong), Ying Li (Hong Kong) and Zheng Zhao (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibiotic compounds having both antibiotic and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics. The compounds comprise an azole antibiotic unit, for example naphthalimide triazole (NT), and an AIE unit, for example triphenylethylene (TriPE). The compounds act as an effective AIEgen with ROS generati...