US Patent Issued to BWXT Isotope Technology Group on March 17 for "Technetium-99m generator column assembly and method of use thereof" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,091, issued on March 17, was assigned to BWXT Isotope Technology Group Inc. (Lynchburg, Va.).

"Technetium-99m generator column assembly and method of use thereof" was invented by Thomas Alan Artman (Forest, Va.) and Kenneth Raymond Palazzi (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator column assembly for the elution of a radioisotope, having a generator column container having a bottom wall defining a flow outlet aperture, an open top end, and a sidewall extending from the open top end to the bottom wall that defines an interior volume having a substantially cylindrical upper volume portion and a substantially cylindric...