ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,014, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
"Large pore agarose" was invented by David Jansson (Uppsala, Sweden), Jesper Hansson (Uppsala, Sweden), Anna Akerblom (Uppsala, Sweden) and Emma Michaelsson (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to porous cross-linked agarose gel beads which have a low agarose content, a method for the preparation of the beads and their use in chromatographic applications. The beads are suitable for the separation/purification of biomolecules from a biological sample. Due to the high porosity of the beads, they are especially su...