ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,866, issued on July 22, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Method of purifying a protein from fermentation solids under desorbing conditions" was invented by Katrin Treier-Marxen (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Petra Deckert (Bammental, Germany), Andreas Schaedler (Weyher, Germany), Vaidotas Navickas (Mannheim, Germany), Volker Wengert (Worms, Germany) and Thomas Kaeding (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method of purifying a protein of interest from the particulate matter of a fermentation broth comprising the step of purifying the protein of interest from the particulat...