ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,006, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nantes Universite (Nantes, France).
"Method for the generation of scandium-44" was invented by Sandrine Huclier (Nantes, France) and Ferid Haddad (Sainte-Luce-Sur-Loire, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating 44Sc from a target solution, includes the following steps: a step of solid-liquid extraction comprising (a) the precipitation of a target solution comprising metal species with fluoride ions, the target solution comprising at least 44Sc, 44Ti, and 46Sc and other metal impurities, whereby a solution comprising a precipitate made essentially of 46Sc is obtained, and (b...