US Patent Issued to University of Oregon on Nov. 3 for "Non-linear single-molecule fret and polarization-sweep single-molecule microscopy" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,284, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.).

"Non-linear single-molecule fret and polarization-sweep single-molecule microscopy" was invented by Andrew H. Marcus (Eugene, Ore.), Claire S. Albrecht (Eugene, Ore.), John W. Maurer (Eugene, Ore.), Patrick J. Herbert (Eugene, Ore.) and Dylan Heussman (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Swept polarization optical beams are directed to a sample to produce fluorescence. typical as a plurality of single photon detection events. Based on frequencies associated with the polarization sweeps, orientation of a sample can be determined. Using polarization swee...