ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,361, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of Dundee (Dundee, Great Britain).

"Imaging compounds for detecting or imaging senescent cells" was invented by Vassilis G. Gorgoulis (Dundee, Great Britain), Nikolaos Lougiakis (Athens, Greece), Panagiotis Marakos (Athens, Greece), Nicole Pouli (Athens, Greece), Athanassios Kotsinas (Athens, Greece), Konstantinos Evangelou (Athens, Greece), Russell Petty (Dundee, Great Britain) and Ilias Christos Tzortzatos (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound, or a salt or solvate thereof, according to formula I as defined herein and pharmaceutical composition comprising said c...