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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2018
Applicant:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventor:
Chris D. Geddes, Bel-Air, MD (US);
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/543 (2006.01); G01N 21/76 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/54373 (2013.01); G01N 21/763 (2013.01); G01N 21/648 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to surface plasmon-coupled bioluminescence, wherein bioluminescent emission from a bioluminescent chemical reaction couples to surface plasmons in metalized particles thereby enhancing the signal. Importantly, these plasmonic emissions emitted from metallic particles generated without an external excitation source but instead from induced electronically excited states caused by the bioluminescent chemical reaction.