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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Bisso, Belmont, MA (US);
Albert Swiston, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jiseok Lee, Melrose, MA (US);
Patrick S. Doyle, Sudbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C09K 11/77 (2006.01); G07D 7/00 (2016.01); G07D 7/12 (2016.01); G07D 7/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6825 (2013.01); C09K 11/7773 (2013.01); G07D 7/0026 (2013.01); G07D 7/122 (2013.01); G07D 7/2033 (2013.01); G01N 21/6486 (2013.01); Y10T 436/13 (2015.01); Y10T 436/143333 (2015.01);
Abstract
Hydrogel microparticles spatially and spectrally encoded using upconverting phosphor nanoparticles are described for use in biochemical testing. In each microparticle, upconversion nanocrystals having spectrally distinguishable emission spectra are disposed in different pardons of an encoding region of the microparticle.