ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,781, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cytiva Sweden AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Automated chromatography column switching control based on pressure detection" was invented by Karol Maciej Lacki (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the invention provides a method for monitoring level of saturation of a chromatography media in a column, which method comprises measuring a first pressure at the inlet of an unloaded column; measuring a second pressure at the inlet from a loaded column; and comparing the first and second pressure measurement of determine the level of saturation of the chromatography media. Em...