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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2006
Joseph A. Laszlo, Peoria, IL (US);
David L. Compton, Peoria, IL (US);
Louis J. Defilippi, Palatine, IL (US);
Steven Grall, Lemont, IL (US);
Joseph A. Laszlo, Peoria, IL (US);
David L. Compton, Peoria, IL (US);
Louis J. DeFilippi, Palatine, IL (US);
Steven Grall, Lemont, IL (US);
Biotechnology Research & Development Corporation, Peoria, IL (US);
United States of America Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A chemical composition comprising a linker agent and a compound comprising at least one UV-absorbing chromophore, wherein the linker agent is characterized by the general formula: wherein Xand Xare the same or different, and at least one of Xor Xis a functional group that bonds with the compound comprising at least one UV-absorbing chromophore, and b+f≧2, Y comprises an O, N, or S that is substituted or unsubstituted, each a, b, c, e and f is ≧0 and a+b+c+e+f≧2, d is 0 or 1, n1 and n2 represent the number of hydrogen atoms required to complete the undesignated valencies, and m ranges from 1 to about 100 and each individual m unit may be the same or different.