US Patent Issued to CHDI Foundation on April 21 for "Deuterated compounds and imaging agents for imaging huntingtin protein" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,570, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHDI Foundation Inc. (New York).

"Deuterated compounds and imaging agents for imaging huntingtin protein" was invented by Longbin Liu (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Celia Dominguez (Los Angeles), Jonathan Bard (New York), Vinod Khetarpal (Ambler, Pa.), Ashley Jarvis (Abingdon, Great Britain), Sarah Hayes (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and John E. Mangette (Town of Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are certain compounds and imaging agents useful for detecting a disease or condition associated with protein aggregation, compositions thereof, and methods of their use."

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