US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Feb. 10 for "Kits and methods for super-resolution microscopy" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,688, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Kits and methods for super-resolution microscopy" was invented by Aussie Suzuki (Madison, Wis.), Mark E. Burkard (Cross Plains, Wis.), Roshan X. Norman (Madison, Wis.) and Emma Recchia (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional expanded microscopy (ExM) is improved upon to show reliable and reproducible 4-fold and 12-fold modified expansion microscopy (mExM). Kits and methods are disclosed to achieve these improvements. The kits can include a sealable mold and instructions for using it in the improved methods. The kits can i...