ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,627, issued on April 29, was assigned to CURIUM US LLC (St. Louis).

"Copper-64 compositions and formulations" was invented by Brian Regna (St. Louis), Allan Casciola (St. Louis), Lauren Radford (St. Louis), Shaun Loveless (St. Louis), David Pipes (St. Louis), William Uhland (St. Louis) and Craig Brunkhorst (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed compositions and formulations comprising high levels of copper-64, and process for preparing said compositions and formulations. The present disclosure also relates to methods of administering copper-64 compositions to a patient in need thereof."

The paten...