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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:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Kyle R. Gee, Springfield, OR (US);
Jolene Bradford, Eugene, OR (US);
Vladimir V. Martin, Eugene, OR (US);
Inventors:
Kyle R. Gee, Springfield, OR (US);
Jolene Bradford, Eugene, OR (US);
Vladimir V. Martin, Eugene, OR (US);
Assignee:
Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene, OR (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 229/00 (2006.01); C07C 321/00 (2006.01); C07C 205/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a metal chelator and methods that facilitate binding, detecting, monitoring and quantitating of heavy metal ions in a sample. This metal chelating moiety is a —N,N,O-triacetic acid analog of BAPTA and has the following formula