US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on May 20 for "Method for testing a chromatography device used for ion exchange" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,152, issued on May 20, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Method for testing a chromatography device used for ion exchange" was invented by Jonathan F. Hester (Hudson, Wis.), Eric J. Olson (Prior Lake, Minn.), Francis E. Porbeni (Woodbury, Minn.), Andrew W. Vail (Bayport, Minn.) and Alexei M. Voloshin (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is method for testing an ion exchange chromatography device. The method includes monitoring both a binding and a non-binding species and determining their breakthrough point to determine a net breakthrough value. The method can be us...