US Patent Issued to SANOCHEMIA PHARMAZEUTIKA on Feb. 24 for "Process for producing a contrast agent" (Austrian, Hungarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,439, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SANOCHEMIA PHARMAZEUTIKA GMBH (Neufeld an der Leitha, Austria).

"Process for producing a contrast agent" was invented by Stefan Welzig (Vienna), Beate Kalz (Steinbrunn, Austria), Jozsef Gungl (Agfalva, Hungary), Klaus Gerdes (Kaarst Vorst, Germany), Roswitha Braunrath (Eisenstadt, Austria) and Christina Abrahamsberg (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a process for producing a contrast agent-containing pharmaceutical preparation, which contains as the contrast agent a complex of a lanthanide, in particular gadolinium, and a macrocyclic chelate, in particular DOTA."

The patent w...