ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,913, issued on June 16, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.) and Affibody AB (Solna, Sweden).

"HER2 binders" was invented by Faisal Ahmed Syud (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Brian Duh-Lan Lee (Rexford, N.Y.), Rong Zhang (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Peter Brian Iveson (Amersham, Great Britain), Paul Schaffer (Vancouver, Canada), Tove Simonsson (Lund, Sweden), Elin Gunneriusson (Saltsjobaden, Sweden), Fredrik Frejd (Stockholm), Lars Abrahmsen (Valhallavagen, Sweden), Joachim Feldwisch (Tyreso, Sweden), Nina Herne (Stockholm) and Christofer Lendel (Farsta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging agents comprising an isolated ...