US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN on Feb. 17 for "F-18 positron diagnostic contrast agent precursor and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,579, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"F-18 positron diagnostic contrast agent precursor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Yu Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A F-18 positron diagnostic contrast agent precursor, the F-18 positron diagnostic contrast agent prepared using the F-18 positron diagnostic contrast agent precursor can be used for positron emission tomography to detect type II vesicular monoamine transporter, produce no metabolites similar to F-18-propanol because the F-18 is marked on the ...