US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on July 7 for "Conjugates including a detectable moiety" (Costa Rican Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,938, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Conjugates including a detectable moiety" was invented by Mark Lefever (Quepos, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are detectable moieties and detectable conjugates comprising one or more detectable moieties. In some embodiments, the disclosed detectable moieties have a narrow wavelength and are suitable for multiplexing. Also disclosed are methods of labeling one or more targets within a biological specimen using any of the detectable conjugates and/or detectable moieties described herein."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2...