ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,363, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Parallel assembly of chromatography column modules" was invented by Klaus Gebauer (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel assembly of chromatography column modules, the assembly having one common assembly inlet and one common assembly outlet, each column module comprising a bed space filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules are adapted to connect the bed space of the column module with the assembly inlet and the ass...