US Patent Issued to Georgia State University Research Foundation on Aug. 18 for "Contrast agents, methods for preparing contrast agents, and methods of imaging" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,677, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. (Atlanta).

"Contrast agents, methods for preparing contrast agents, and methods of imaging" was invented by Jenny Jie Yang (Marietta, Ga.), Zhiren Liu (Atlanta), Jie Jiang (Atlanta), Shenghui Xue (Atlanta), Jinjuan Qiao (Atlanta) and Mani Salarian (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for contrast agents, methods of making contrast agents, and methods of using contrast agents, and the like."

The patent was filed on July 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/346,503.

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