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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:
Jan. 30, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2014
Applicant:

Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU;

Inventors:

Igor L. Medintz, Springfield, VA (US);

Bertalan K. Andrasfalvy, Budapest, HU;

Kimihiro Susumu, Alexandria, VA (US);

James B. Delehanty, Washington, DC (US);

Alan L. Huston, Aldie, VA (US);

John J. Macklin, Wenonah, NJ (US);

Mladen Barbic, Sterling, VA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/487 (2006.01); C12M 1/42 (2006.01); B01L 3/02 (2006.01); C03C 17/00 (2006.01); C03C 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/48728 (2013.01); B01L 3/021 (2013.01); C03C 17/003 (2013.01); C03C 17/009 (2013.01); C03C 17/22 (2013.01); C12M 35/02 (2013.01); B01L 2300/168 (2013.01); C03C 2217/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A glass pipette such as an electrode for electrophysiological recording is coated with quantum dots. This greatly aids the ability to observe the glass pipette, particular in tissue as the quantum dots provide an excellent performance under two-photon illumination used to visualize objects at depths of hundreds of microns.


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