US Patent Issued to Provincial Health Services Authority, The University of British Columbia on Sept. 30 for "Dual mode 18F-labelled theranostic compounds and uses thereof" (Canadian, Chinese, French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,209, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Provincial Health Services Authority (Vancouver, Canada) and The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Dual mode 18F-labelled theranostic compounds and uses thereof" was invented by David Perrin (Vancouver, Canada), Aron Roxin (Vancouver, Canada), Mathieu Lepage (L'Huisserie, France), Sungjoon Huh (Surrey, Canada), Zhibo Liu (Beijing), Rajaguru Kandasamy (Tamil Nadu, India), Francois Benard (Vancouver, Canada), Kuo-Shyan Lin (Richmond, Canada), Hsiou-Ting Kuo (Vancouver, Canada) and Chengcheng Zhang (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound or molecular comple...