ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,088, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies UK Ltd. (Billingham, Great Britain).

"Process for purifying target substances" was invented by Tibor Nagy (Billingham, Great Britain), Jonathan Haigh (Billingham, Great Britain), Charles Heise (Billingham, Great Britain), Andrew Topping (Billingham, Great Britain) and James Pullen (Billingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for purifying a composition comprising water, a target substance, impurities and optionally cells, the process comprising the steps (A) and (B): (A) preparing a liquid feedstock by performing step (Ai) and/or (Aii) on...