US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Oct. 14 for "Affinity chromatography media for removal of anti-a and/or anti-b antibodies" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,809, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Affinity chromatography media for removal of anti-a and/or anti-b antibodies" was invented by Nanying Bian (Lexington, Mass.), Chia-Yun Sun (Arlington, Mass.), Melissa Holstein (Concord, Mass.), Kristen Cotoni (Malden, Mass.), Matthew T. Stone (Arlington, Mass.) and Santosh Rahane (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to novel chromatography media for removing anti-A and/or anti-B antibodies from a sample, as well as methods of using the same. The media described herein have several advantages over previously de...