ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,168, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cytiva Sweden AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method for sanitization of a chromatography column" was invented by Johan Avallin (Uppsala, Sweden), Anna Gronberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Anders Nilsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Henrik Ingvarsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Linda Persson (Uppsala, Sweden), Magnus Asplund (Uppsala, Sweden) and Reinhard Braaz (Penzberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method for sanitization of a bioprocess chromatography column, comprising the steps of: a) providing a bioprocess chromatography column with a packed bed of separation resin particles and a movable ...