US Patent Issued to Curium US on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for producing a radioactive drug product using a dispensing unit" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,177, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Curium US LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for producing a radioactive drug product using a dispensing unit" was invented by Bryan Scott Petrofsky (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Production systems for producing a radioactive drug product include a hot cell having a radiation isolating shielding and a dispensing unit positioned within the hot cell. The dispensing unit includes a manipulator arm for manipulating a closure component of a vial. The system further includes a pneumatic line extending from the manipulator arm and through the radiation isolating shielding to a locatio...