US Patent Issued to Airway Therapeutics, Glycotope on Aug. 19 for "Methods, compositions and cells for preparing surfactant protein D (SP-D)" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,956, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Airway Therapeutics Inc. (Marietta, Ga.) and Glycotope GmbH (Berlin).

"Methods, compositions and cells for preparing surfactant protein D (SP-D)" was invented by Jan Susan Rosenbaum (Cincinnati), Frederick Gyapon Quast (Berlin), Matthias Kaup (Berlin) and Lars Stockl (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the methods and compositions provided herein relate to the preparation surfactant protein-D (SP-D). Some embodiments include the expression of human SP-D in certain cell lines, and the purification of human SP-D from such cell lines. Some embodiments include the preparation...