ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,891, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Washington (Seatle, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for cyclic fluorescence imaging" was invented by Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle), Chun-Ting Kuo (Seattle) and Li Wu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improved labeling and/or de-labeling a molecule or cell in the context of scientific experimentation, industrial applications, and clinical investigation, including the means to repeat the process of labeling and de-labeling in an efficient manner."

The patent was filed on April 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/303,725.

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