US Patent Issued to BRACCO IMAGING on July 21 for "Pharmaceutical compositions of Gd-based contrast agents" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,788, issued on July 21, was assigned to BRACCO IMAGING S.P.A. (Milan).

"Pharmaceutical compositions of Gd-based contrast agents" was invented by Zsolt Baranyai (Trieste, Italy), Mariangela Boccalon (Terzo d'Aquileia, Italy), Federica Buonsanti (Turin, Italy), Federico Crivellin (Grugliasco, Italy), Alessandro Maiocchi (Monza, Italy), Roberta Mazzon (Volpiano, Italy), Fabio Tedoldi (Marzano, Italy) and Fulvio Uggeri (Codogno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising an gadolinium-complex and a saturated macrocyclic tetraamine that find application in diagnostic imagin...