US Patent Issued to Bracco Diagnostics on Jan. 20 for "Integrated strontium-rubidium radioisotope infusion systems" (Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee, New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,907, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Bracco Diagnostics Inc. (Monroe Township, N.J.).

"Integrated strontium-rubidium radioisotope infusion systems" was invented by Stephen E. Hidem (Edina, Minn.), Aaron M. Fontaine (Minneapolis), Janet L. Gelbach (Schaumburg, Ill.), Patrick M. McDonald (Omaha, Neb.), Kathryn M. Hunter (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rolf E. Swenson (Silver Spring, Md.) and Julius P. Zodda (Mercerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for setting up, maintaining and operating a radiopharmaceutical infusion system, that includes a radioisotope generator, are facilitated by a computer of the system. The computer may ...