ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,179, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan).

"Production method for radiolabeled aryl compound" was invented by Yoshifumi Shirakami (Suita, Japan), Hayato Ikeda (Suita, Japan), Yasukazu Kanai (Suita, Japan), Eku Shimosegawa (Suita, Japan), Jun Hatazawa (Suita, Japan), Tadashi Watabe (Suita, Japan) and Kazuko Kaneda (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of producing the radiolabeled aryl compound (I) Ar-X, or a salt thereof, wherein X is 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I, or 131I. The method involves reacting the aryl boronic acid compound (II) Ar-Y, or a salt thereof...