US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Nov. 3 for "Radiolabeled sugars for imaging of fungal infections" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,058, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Radiolabeled sugars for imaging of fungal infections" was invented by Dima A. Hammoud (Bethesda, Md.), Rolf Eric Swenson (Rockville, Md.), Xiang Zhang (Bethesda, Md.), Swati Shah (Bethesda, Md.), Peter R. Williamson (Bethesda, Md.), Zhen-Dan Shi (Rockville, Md.) and Falguni Bhattacharyya (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compounds having a structure according to Formula I and optionally Formula IV.The compounds may be radiolabeled compounds use...