US Patent Issued to CHO Plus on Sept. 2 for "Hybrid yeast cell lines for high level production of recombinant protein" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,502, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CHO Plus Inc..

"Hybrid yeast cell lines for high level production of recombinant protein" was invented by Lawrence Forman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides improved cell lines for manufacture of protein, considerably reducing the cost of commercial production. The cell lines are obtained by selecting cells from a mixed population for one or more characteristics that support protein production on a non-specific basis, such as the level of endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and/or other desired phenotypic features, compared with other cells in the sta...