United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,872,013 Leunissen Et Al
USOO5872O13A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,872,013 Leunissen et al. (45) Date of Patent: *Feb. 16, 1999 54 UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE DETECTION 56) References Cited SYSTEM BASED ON ULTRA SMALL COLLOIDAL METAL PARTICLES U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,206,094 6/1980 Yen et al.. 75 Inventors: Johannes Leonardus Maria 4,313,734 2/1982 Leuvering. Leunissen, Merksplas; Marc Joris De 4.420,558 12/1983 De Mey et al.. Brabander, Zoersel, both of Belgium; 4,446,238 5/1984 De Mey et al. ........................ 436/527 Petrus Franciscus Elisabeth Maria 4,752,567 6/1988 DeBrabander et al. 436/525 X 4,775,636 10/1988 Moeremans et al. ................... 436/518 Van de Plas, Breda, Netherlands 4,877,647 10/1989 Klabunde ................................ 427/123 73 Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., Beerse, 5,120,643 6/1992 Ching et al. ........................... 435/7.92 Belgium FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS * Notice: This patent issued on a continued pros 158 746 10/1985 European Pat. Off.. ecution application filed under 37 CFR 165 643 12/1985 European Pat. Off.. 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year 167834 1/1986 European Pat. Off.. patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2). OTHER PUBLICATIONS Horisberger, “Colloidal Gold as a tool in molecular biol 21 Appl. No.: 539,131 ogy”, TIBS, Nov., 1983 pp. 395-397. Roth, “The Colloidal Gold Marker System for Light and 22 Filed: Oct. 4, 1995 Electron Microscopic Cytochemistry,” in Immunocytochem Related U.S. Application Data istry 2, Academic Press, London, (1984), pp. 217-284.
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