ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,690, issued on March 18, was assigned to ETH ZURICH (Switzerland).

"Mammalian cell line for protein production and library generation" was invented by Sai Reddy (Basel, Switzerland), William Kelton (Basel, Switzerland), Cristina Parola (Basel, Switzerland), Derek Mason (Basel, Switzerland) and Mark Pogson (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first aspect of the invention, a method for the generation of a cell line is provided, comprising the steps of (a) providing a plurality of mammalian B cells, wherein each of the plurality of B cells comprises a transgenic genomic DNA sequence encoding a marker protei...