US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION, HAMPTON UNIVERSITY on Aug. 12 for "Proton activated atomic medicine" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,812, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Va.) and HAMPTON UNIVERSITY (Hampton, Va.).

"Proton activated atomic medicine" was invented by Tyvin A. Rich (Charlottesville, Va.), Dongfeng Pan (Charlottesville, Va.) and Mahendra D. Chordia (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides compositions and methods for preparing and using "heavy" nucleotide derivatives of thymidine or uridine by replacing the oxygen atom attached to one or more of positions with non-radioactive oxygen-18 (18O), administering it to a subject to target a tumor includi...