US Patent Issued to THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION on Jan. 20 for "Radiopharmaceuticals and composition for thrombus imaging" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,886, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE ASAN FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Radiopharmaceuticals and composition for thrombus imaging" was invented by Sang Ju Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Jun Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Seung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Hyuk Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sun Young Chae (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound represented by the following Formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:where R1 is a chelating agent labeled with a metallic radioisotope. A thrombus imaging compositi...