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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce E Babb, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert T Belly, Webster, NY (US);
Albert J Mura, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 29 ; 435-4 ; 436546 ; 436800 ; 436805 ; 564426 ; 564427 ; 568 63 ; 568326 ;
Abstract
Certain phenalenone and benzphenalenone fluorescent compounds are useful in biomedical studies and analytical determinations. These compounds are particularly useful in assays for living organisms, e.g. microorganisms, carried out at a pH of 9 or less. For these determinations, the compounds can be attached to reducible compounds which will subsequently release the fluorescent moiety upon reduction. In the presence of an electron transfer agent, the reducible compounds are easily reduced by a microorganism.