Ronald Colin Garner - York, GB3 David J. Phillips - Charlestown MA Timothy G. Wilkinson - York, GB3 Frank G. Angella - Somerville MA Erwin R. Dorland - York, GB3 Martin W. Stow - York, GB3
Assignee:
Biocode Ltd. - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
G01N 33545
US Classification:
435 792
Abstract:
In general, the invention features a method of marking a product for identification in which a marker, composed of a low molecular weight hapten covalently bound to a compound, is associated with the product. Where the marker is non-deleterious to the product, inert with respect to the product, and not already associated with the product. The invention also features hapten markers produced by covalently binding a hapten to a functional monomer and subsequently polymerizing the hapten-labeled monomer to form a hapten-labeled polymer.