US Patent Issued to Northstar Medical Technologies on April 22 for "Method and system for producing isotopes" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,387, issued on April 22, was assigned to Northstar Medical Technologies LLC (Beloit, Wis.).

"Method and system for producing isotopes" was invented by James T. Harvey (Naperville, Ill.), Rimas S. Milunas (Madison, Wis.), Daniel E. Peltier (Sun Prairie, Wis.), Sarah M. Burns (Madison, Wis.), James L. McCarter (Waunakee, Wis.), Tomas A. Montenegro (Madison, Wis.), Jason M. Schlough (Madison, Wis.), Maxwell J. Brennan (Madison, Wis.) and Quintin G. Schiller (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for producing radioisotopes such as molybdenum-99. The system comprises a first accelerator, a second accelerator, a ...