ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,502, issued on July 29, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods for chromatography resin slurry determination" was invented by Nathan Mao (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Eric Shierly (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Joseph Gallea (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Raymond Feng (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Tikiri Dissanayake (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Bernhard Schilling (Tarrytown, N.Y.) and Scott Carver (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for determining a slurry concentration for a slurry of a chromatography resin during a column packing. The present invention provides a more accurate and consistent method...