US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Intermetallic compounds of cobalt as targets for the production of theranostic radionuclides" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,394, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Intermetallic compounds of cobalt as targets for the production of theranostic radionuclides" was invented by Paul A. Ellison (Madison, Wis.), Robert Jerome Nickles (Madison, Wis.), Todd E. Barnhart (Madison, Wis.), Jonathan W. Engle (Middleton, Wis.) and Christopher J. Kutyreff (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cobalt intermetallic compounds that include cobalt and a second element are provided. The isotopes of the second element in the compounds are present in their natural isotopic abundance or in an enriched isotopic abundance...