ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,884, issued on March 31, was assigned to Jubilant Draximage Inc. (Canada).
"Closed-loop elution system to evaluate patients with suspected or existing peripheral arterial disease" was invented by Indranil Nandi (Yardley, Pa.), Anita Jolene MacDonald (Kirkland, Canada), Norman LaFrance (Yardley, Pa.) and Tanima Ghosh (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a closed loop generation and/or infusion system comprising a radionuclide generator, an activity detector, a controller, a dose calibrator, a pump, eluant source and an automated elution system controlled by software and hardware for generati...