US Patent Issued to CENTENARY INSTITUTE OF CANCER MEDICINE AND CELL BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY on May 13 for "Conjugates and their use as imaging agents" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,030, issued on May 13, was assigned to CENTENARY INSTITUTE OF CANCER MEDICINE AND CELL BIOLOGY (Australia) and UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Australia).

"Conjugates and their use as imaging agents" was invented by Philip Hogg (Malabar, Australia) and Ivan Ho Shon (Strathfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds according to Formula (I):wherein A is -As(OH)2 or an arsenoxide equivalent group; each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is independently selected from H, X, OH, NH2, CO, SCN, -CH2NH, -NHCOCH3, -NHCOCH2X or NO, and X is a halogen; R5 is -NHCH2COOH, OH or OR6, wherein R6 is a C1-5 straight or branched alkyl ...