ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,573, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GPS Innovations (Bellaire, Texas).

"Tunable, simple, higher-yield, higher-rate, lower-cost recovery method of biopharmaceutical products from cell factories" was invented by Naveed Aslam (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simpler and lower-cost method and associated hardware are described for recovering biopharmaceutical products from cell factories in higher yields by a liquid nitrogen-based pre-treatment of cell factories followed by gentler disintegration of cellular factories by tunable, pressurizing and de-pressurizing cycle with gaseous nitrogen. The cell factories are hete...