US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Monoamine oxidase B imaging probe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,579, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Monoamine oxidase B imaging probe" was invented by Ryuichi Harada (Sendai, Japan), Shozo Furumoto (Sendai, Japan), Yukitsuka Kudo (Sendai, Japan) and Nobuyuki Okamura (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a compound represented by formula (I) that can image monoamine oxidase-B with high specificity and selectivity for monoamine oxidase-B and with good sensitivity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2019, under Application No. 17/265,988.

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