US Patent Issued to The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC on June 10 for "Production of radioisotopes" (South African Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,649, issued on June 10, was assigned to The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation SOC Limited (North West Province, South Africa).

"Production of radioisotopes" was invented by Jan Rijn Zeevaart (Pretoria, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining, from a target compound, a radioisotope of a target element comprised in the target compound includes irradiating the target compound with high energy photon irradiation (gamma irradiation). Thereby the target element radioisotope is formed. The method is performed such that the target element radioisotope is of different oxidation state than the target element, a...