US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on March 17 for "Protein proximity assay in formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue using caged haptens" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,266, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Protein proximity assay in formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue using caged haptens" was invented by Yuri Belosludtsev (Tucson, Ariz.), Traci D. DeGeer (Tucson, Ariz.), Wendy J. French (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Junshan Hao (Tucson, Ariz.), Brian D. Kelly (Tucson, Ariz.), Adrian E. Murillo (Tucson, Ariz.) and Nathan W. Polaske (Oracle, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are caged haptens and caged hapten-antibody conjugates useful for enabling the detection of targets located proximally to each other in a sample."

The patent was ...