US Patent Issued to Cytiva BioProcess R&D on March 18 for "Method of manufacturing agar or agarose beads" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,681, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method of manufacturing agar or agarose beads" was invented by Susanna Lindberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Jonas Gustafsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Linn Carlsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Anders Hagvall (Uppsala, Sweden), Erik Ringberg (Uppsala, Sweden) and David Jansson (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses method for manufacturing agar or agarose beads, comprising the steps of: a) providing a water phase comprising an aqueous solution of agar or agarose at a temperature of 40-100deg C.: b) providing an oil phase comprising a water-i...