ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luminos, LLC announces the signing of an exclusive license agreement with the University of Pittsburgh to use their patented technology to develop and sell detection kits which contain a new fluorescent sensor to detect the rare metals palladium and platinum. The fluorescent molecule was developed in Professor Kazunori Koide’s lab at the University’s Department of Chemistry. The technology allows the end user to quantitatively detect palladium or platinum in samples simply and rapidly using the fluorescent signal generated.