US Patent Issued to Curium US on May 27 for "Purification process for the preparation of non-carrier added copper-64" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,649, issued on May 27, was assigned to Curium US LLC (St. Louis).

"Purification process for the preparation of non-carrier added copper-64" 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: "Compositions comprising high levels of high specific activity copper-64, and process for preparing said compositions. The compositions comprise from about 2 Ci to about 15 Ci of copper-64 and have specific activities up to about 3800 mCi copper-64 per microgram...