US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Dec. 16 for "Silicone-based enteric CT contrast material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,362, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Silicone-based enteric CT contrast material" was invented by Benjamin M. Yeh (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Yanjun Fu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a silicon-based polymer contrast media for use in CT imaging. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides an enteric contrast medium formulation. An exemplary formulation comprises, (a) an enteric contrast medium comprising silicon-based po...