US Patent Issued to Cornell University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Aug. 5 for "One-step, fast, 18F-19F isotopic exchange radiolabeling of difluoro-dioxaborinins and use of such compounds in treatment" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,261, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"One-step, fast, 18F-19F isotopic exchange radiolabeling of difluoro-dioxaborinins and use of such compounds in treatment" was invented by Richard Ting (New York), Omer Aras (New York), Feifei An (New York) and Nandi Chen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof, wherein X1 and X2 are each independently 18F or 19F; R1 and R2 are each independently alkyl, amine, perfluoroalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, or aralkenyl;...