US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on June 9 for "Zirconium-89 oxine complex as a cell labeling agent for positron emission tomography" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,752, issued on June 9, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Zirconium-89 oxine complex as a cell labeling agent for positron emission tomography" was invented by Noriko Sato (Potomac, Md.), Haitao Wu (Rockville, Md.), Gary L Griffiths (North Potomac, Md.) and Peter L Choyke (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of preparing a 89Zr-oxine complex of the formulaThe invention also provides a method of labeling a cell with the 89Zr-oxine complex and a method for detecting a biological cell in a subjec...