US Patent Issued to Serum Institute of India on Dec. 16 for "Methods for simultaneous fragmentation and purification of bacterial polysaccharides" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,640, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Serum Institute of India Private Ltd. (Pune Maharashtra, India).

"Methods for simultaneous fragmentation and purification of bacterial polysaccharides" was invented by Rajeev Mhalasakant Dhere (Maharashtra, India), Swapan Kumar Jana (Maharashtra, India) and Walmik Karbhari Gaikwad (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to alternative, cost effective, rapid and simple methods for bacterial capsular polysaccharide (CPS) manufacturing resulting in 1) simultaneous sizing and purification of CPS 2) high CPS yield, 3) improved CPS purity and removal of prote...