US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Nov. 18 for "Method of preparing zirconium-89 oxine complex" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,307, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Method of preparing zirconium-89 oxine complex" was invented by Noriko Sato (Potomac, Md.), Haitao Wu (Rockville, Md.), Gary L. Griffiths (North Potomac, Md.) and Peter L. Choyke (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of preparing a 89Zr-oxine complex of the formulaThe invention also provides a method of labeling a cell with the 89Zr-oxine complex and a method for detecting a biological cell in a subject comprising administering the 89Z...