Patent 11155714 was granted and assigned to BioLegend, Inc. on October, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides fluorescent polyfluorene polymers or macromers with unique optical properties that are stable. The polymeric fluorophores are useful in various bioassays formats. The inventive polymers are useful in assays relying on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanisms where two fluorophores are used.