US Patent Issued to BRACCO IMAGING on Aug. 25 for "Iron complexes and salts thereof as contrast agents for MRI" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,891, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BRACCO IMAGING S.P.A. (Milan).

"Iron complexes and salts thereof as contrast agents for MRI" was invented by Camilla Cavallotti (Novara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an iron complex having the general formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition formulated for oral and/or parenteral administration, preferably intravenous, said pharmaceutical composition preferably being formulated as an aqueous solution comprising said complex or salt. The present invention further relates t...