ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,477, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Antibody selection apparatus and methods" was invented by Vikas K. Sharma (Millbrae, Calif.), Trevor E. Swartz (San Carlos, Calif.) and Thomas W. Patapoff (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, computer-readable media, articles of manufacture and methods for selecting an antibody. Apparatus, systems, computer-readable media, articles of manufacture and methods for producing the selected antibody. The selecting may include determining one or more physiochemical characteristics of the antibody. The determining may be b...