US Patent Issued to WWIKY Biosciences on April 14 for "Markers, conjugates, compositions and methods for hypoxia imaging, mapping, and therapy" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,742, issued on April 14, was assigned to WWIKY Biosciences Inc. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Markers, conjugates, compositions and methods for hypoxia imaging, mapping, and therapy" was invented by Piyush Kumar (Edmonton, Canada), Hassan Elsaidi (Edmonton, Canada), Leonard Irving Wiebe (Edmonton, Canada) and Michael Weinfeld (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are markers, conjugates, compositions and methods for hypoxia imaging, mapping, and therapy. A compound comprising bio-reductively activated (BA) arm, linker arm and a mapping click wherein BA contains one for more of substituted or unsubstituted 2/4/5-su...