US Patent Issued to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN, TENTAMUS PHARMA & MED DEUTSCHLAND on June 17 for "Production of viruses in continuously growing epithelial cell lines derived from chicken gut" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,810, issued on June 17, was assigned to FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (Berlin) and TENTAMUS PHARMA & MED DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Production of viruses in continuously growing epithelial cell lines derived from chicken gut" was invented by Michael Veit (Berlin), Chris Tina Hofer (Berlin) and Wolfgang Rudy (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for manufacturing viruses in an in vitro cell culture. The method comprising the following steps: providing a cell culture of avian epithelial cells chosen from at least one of the cell cultures deposited under deposition numbers DSM ACC3345, DSM AC...