US Patent Issued to Washington University on April 8 for "Compositions of and methods of making ferritin-based imaging agents" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,760, issued on April 8, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Compositions of and methods of making ferritin-based imaging agents" was invented by Kevin Bennett (St. Louis) and Edwin Baldelomar (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of methods and compositions for detecting recombinant cationic ferritin imaging agents. Also provided are transgenic microorganisms capable of synthesizing a recombinant ferritin imaging agent and methods of making the same. The imaging agents described herein can be used to effectively and noninvasively detect renal pat...