US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 29 for "Iodinated compounds having radiocontrast properties" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,201, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Iodinated compounds having radiocontrast properties" was invented by Yiqing Tang (Guildford, Great Britain), Francesco Cuda (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Cristian Parisi (Boston), Koorosh Ashrafi (Purley, Great Britain), Sean L. Willis (Farnham, Great Britain) and Curry Brown (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to iodinated compounds that comprise at least one 2,4,6-triiodobenzene moiety in which at least one of the hydrogens at 1-, 3- and 5-positions of the 2,4,6-triiodobenzene moiety is substit...