ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,305, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Integrated continuous isolation of fluid streams from sterile process vessels" was invented by Robert Snow (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are isolation processes and the associated hardware to allow fluid streams to be isolated from a sterilized system (e.g., a sterile process vessel) that contains a sterile process. The isolation processes described herein allow for continuous removal of fluid streams (e.g., waste streams, liquid containing recombinant therapeutic proteins) from a sterilized system (e.g., a biological manufa...