US Patent Issued to EMD Millipore on May 13 for "Methods for increasing the capacity of purification processes" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,229, issued on May 13, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Methods for increasing the capacity of purification processes" was invented by Venkatesh Natarajan (Arlington, Mass.), Herbert Lutz (Playa del Rey, Calif.) and Bala Raghunath (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the present invention provides a process for separating target proteins from non-target proteins in a sample comprising increasing the concentration of the target proteins and non-target proteins in the sample and subsequently delivering the concentrated sample to a chromatography device. In other embodiments, ...