ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,635, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Beerse, Belgium).
"Radiolabelled MGL PET ligands" was invented by Gang Chen (San Diego), Chaofeng Huang (San Diego) and Jimmy T. Liang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel, selective, radiolabelled compound having monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL) affinity which are useful for imaging and quantifying MGL receptor expression, distribution and enzyme occupancy in tissues, using positron-emission tomography (PET). The invention is also directed to compositions comprising such compounds, the use of such compounds and compositions for...