ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,855, issued on June 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG (Strasbourg, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Fluorogenic dimer compound, useful as a probe for detection of endogenous receptors" was invented by Julie Karpenko (Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France), Andrey Klymchenko (Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France), Dominique Bonnet (Geispolsheim, France) and Mayeul Collot (Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a novel fluorogenic dimer compound, useful as a probe for detection of endogenous receptors, in particular G protein-coupled receptors. The p...