US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on Sept. 23 for "Expression vectors for eukaryotic expression systems" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,524, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Expression vectors for eukaryotic expression systems" was invented by Zhimei Du (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Bo Jiang (Westfield, N.J.) and Xiaoyan Tang (Wayne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides expression vectors for expressing recombinant proteins (e.g., biologics) in mammalian cells. Also provided are host cells comprising the expression vectors, methods of producing the recombinant proteins, and methods of propagating the expression vectors."

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2019, under Application No. 17/277,663.

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