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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
He Wei, Cambridge, MA (US);
Oliver T. Bruns, Boston, MA (US);
Ou Chen, Mansfield, MA (US);
Moungi G. Bawendi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/00 (2006.01); A61K 49/18 (2006.01); H01F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 49/1839 (2013.01); H01F 1/0054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of preparing a coated nanoparticle can include decomposing a compound to produce a nanoparticle, oxidizing the nanoparticle to produce an oxidized nanoparticle, and coating the oxidized nanoparticle with a zwitterionic ligand to produce the coated nanoparticle. The coated nanoparticle or the nanoparticle can be used in magnetic resonance imaging.