US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 3 for "High throughput radiochemistry system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,840, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"High throughput radiochemistry system" was invented by R. Michael van Dam (Los Angeles), Jia Wang (Los Angeles), Alejandra Rios (Los Angeles), Philip Chao (Los Angeles) and Jason Jones (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiosynthesis system is disclosed that leverages droplet microfluidic radiosynthesis and its inherent advantages including reduction of reagent consumption and the ability to achieve high molar activity even when using low starting radioactivity. The radiosynthesis system enables the parallel synthesis o...