ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,885, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ablynx N.V. (Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium).
"Chromatography-free antibody purification method" was invented by Peter Casteels (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Willem Van De Velde (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Anthony Van De Putte (Zwijnaarde, Belgium) and Sindi De Vrieze (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates method for purifying antibodies, said method comprising a limited number of steps while still allowing obtaining high yields of purified antibodies with an appropriate degree of purity. Briefly, this method comprises only filtration and precipitation steps, omitting ...