US Patent Issued to REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS on July 8 for "Fabrication of protein-encapsulating microgels" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,374, issued on July 8, was assigned to REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Fabrication of protein-encapsulating microgels" was invented by Hunter Chen (New York) and Yiming Zhao (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for fabricating protein-encapsulating microgels using hydrocarbon-in-fluorocarbon emulsions. The non-aqueous emulsion-based microgel fabrication methods can be used for the encapsulation of a wide range of proteins and peptides, including antibodies and antibody-fusion proteins, for therapeutic use with ease of administration."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1...