US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Devices and methods for radiopharmaceutical synthesis" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,170, issued on March 31, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Devices and methods for radiopharmaceutical synthesis" was invented by H. Charles Manning (Franklin, Tenn.), Michael L. Nickels (Nashville, Tenn.), Xin Zhang (Nashville, Tenn.) and Leon M. Bellan (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for synthesizing a radioisotope-labelled target tracer includes a microfluidic chip having an SCX module configured to concentrate and capture a radioisotope from a radioisotope solution and release the captured radioisotope therefrom, an SAX module configured to purify the released radioisotope from ...