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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2014
Applicants:

Immunolight, Llc, Detroit, MI (US);

Duke University, Durham, NC (US);

Inventors:

Tuan Vo-Dinh, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Jonathan P. Scaffidi, Durham, NC (US);

Venkata Gopal Reddy Chada, Durham, NC (US);

Benoit Lauly, Durham, NC (US);

Yan Zhang, Durham, NC (US);

Molly K. Gregas, Durham, NC (US);

Ian Nicholas Stanton, Durham, NC (US);

Joshua T. Stecher, Durham, NC (US);

Michael J. Therien, Durham, NC (US);

Frederic A. Bourke, Jr., Aspen, CO (US);

Harold Walder, Belville, NC (US);

Zak Fathi, Raleigh, NC (US);

Jennifer A. Ayres, Raleigh, NC (US);

Zhenyuan Zhang, Durham, NC (US);

Joseph H. Simmons, Tucson, AZ (US);

Stephen John Norton, Cary, NC (US);

Assignees:

DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC (US);

IMMUNOLIGHT, LLC, Detroit, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/06 (2006.01); A61K 49/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/08 (2006.01); A61N 1/40 (2006.01); A61N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/0601 (2013.01); A61K 49/0039 (2013.01); A61L 2/08 (2013.01); A61L 2202/21 (2013.01); A61L 2202/22 (2013.01); A61N 1/406 (2013.01); A61N 5/02 (2013.01); A61N 5/062 (2013.01); A61N 2005/0656 (2013.01); A61N 2005/0659 (2013.01);
Abstract

A nanoparticle-based system for enhancement of emitted light inside a medium. The nanoparticle-based system includes a phosphorescent material which, upon activation, produces the emitted light, and a metallic structure attached to the phosphorescent material. The metallic structure has a surface plasmon resonance which resonates at a frequency which spectrally overlaps with one or more frequencies of the emitted light.


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