ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,060, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SNVIA Co. LTD. (Busan, South Korea).

"Radioactive isotope-labeled, photo-crosslinkable hydrogel, and preparation method therefor" was invented by Seung Yun Yang (Miryang-si, South Korea), Sodam Kim (Busan, South Korea), Sang-Gu Yim (Busan, South Korea), Sujeet Kumar (Miryang-si, South Korea) and Ajeesh Chandrasekharan (Miryang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photocrosslinkable hydrogel may comprise a radioisotope-labeled photocrosslinkable compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which may be used as a composition for radiotherapy, a composition for radiodiagnostic...