US Patent Issued to Sun Nuclear on Dec. 2 for "Functionalized superabsorbent material for use in lesion phantom" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,883, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sun Nuclear Corp. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Functionalized superabsorbent material for use in lesion phantom" was invented by Cristel Baiu (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contrast targets for medical imaging are disclosed herein which include a granule of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) material. The granule of SAP material has absorbed and formed crosslinks with a hydrogen-containing liquid to form an expanded SAP particle with at least one predetermined medical imaging physical property."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/348,258.

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