US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device, University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Particles functionalized with imageable radioisotopes and methods of making and use thereof" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,587, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Particles functionalized with imageable radioisotopes and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by James Radford Stone (Charlottesville, Va.), Kiel Douglas Neumann (Charlottesville, Va.) and Matthew Robert Dreher (Dover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to imageable radioisotopic microspheres. In some embodiments, the imageable microspheres are radiolabeled with imageable radioisotopes. In some embodiments, the imageable radioisotope...