ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,019, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Methods of determining protein stability" was invented by Jie Wen (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for a method of assessing stability of a therapeutic protein in a formulation comprising the steps of measuring thermal stability of the therapeutic protein wherein the value for thermal stability correlates with the main peak percent change determined by size exclusion chromatography in a statistically significant manner."

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2020, under Application No. 17/431,810.

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