Patent 12018117 was granted and assigned to Beckman Coulter on June, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Water-soluble photoactive polymers, included polymer tandem dyes, as described as well as methods for their preparation and use. The photoactive polymers can be prepared by direct modification of core polymers (e.g., violet excitable polymers) with dyes or other functional groups. Methods of detecting analytes using the polymers are also described.