ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,171, issued on March 17, was assigned to ABK BIOMEDICAL Inc. (Halifax, Canada).
"Composition of radioactive and non-radioactive microparticles" was invented by Marc Gregoire (Ottawa) and F. Anthony Headley Jr. (Greensboro, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a composition that includes a mixture of (i) radioactive microparticles; and (ii) non-radioactive microparticles. The radioactive microparticles may be suitable to treat a vascularized tumour, such as a liver tumour or a metastasized liver tumour. The radioactive microparticles and the non-radioactive microparticles may have substantially the same ...