US Patent Issued to Boehringer Ingelheim International on July 29 for "Methods for continuously inactivating a virus during manufacture of a protein" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,671, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Methods for continuously inactivating a virus during manufacture of a protein" was invented by Marcus Andre Fiadeiro (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Coffman (Union City, Calif.), Robert Lee Fahrner (Ellisville, Mo.), Jill Ann Kublbeck (Atkinson, N.H.), Raquel Orozco (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Jeffrey Richard Salm (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for continuously inactivating a virus during manufacture of a protein are provided. Steps include (1) combining, at a single predetermined volumetric ratio, a com...