Patent 11866588 was granted and assigned to Profusa (company) on January, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed, in certain embodiments, to polymerizable near-IR dyes and polymers comprising said dyes as monomeric residues. In other embodiments, the present invention also relates to methods for the preparation of polymerizable near-IR dyes, and to the use of polymerizable near-IR dyes in the preparation of fluorescent polymers.