US Patent Issued to NEW MEXICO TECH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARK, UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS on April 22 for "Method to separate isotopes created by photonuclear reactions" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,388, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEW MEXICO TECH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARK Corp. (Socorro, N.M.) and UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Method to separate isotopes created by photonuclear reactions" was invented by Douglas Wells (Socorro, N.M.), Nikolai Kalugin (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Alexey Serov (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The widespread utilization and growing demand for radiopharmaceuticals are attributable to the development and availability of a range of radiopharmaceuticals. The present disclosure describes methods of making 3-dimensional nano-porous, micro-porous, meso-porous, or macr...