US Patent Issued to BRACCO IMAGING on July 21 for "Anti-HER2 polypeptides derivatives as new diagnostic molecular probes" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,710, issued on July 21, was assigned to BRACCO IMAGING S.P.A. (Milan).

"Anti-HER2 polypeptides derivatives as new diagnostic molecular probes" was invented by Erika Reitano (Banchette, Italy), Alessandro Maiocchi (Monza, Italy), Luisa Poggi (Turin, Italy), Federico Crivellin (Grugliasco, Italy), Simon Huet (Nantes, France), Mathieu Cinier (Nantes, France) and Olivier Kitten (Indre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides new polypeptide derivatives binding to Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) and their conjugates thereof, and to their use as a diagnostic agent, particularly for early detecti...