US Patent Issued to Takeda Pharmaceutical on March 11 for "Adeno-associated virus purification methods" (Austrian, Null, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,047, issued on March 11, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Adeno-associated virus purification methods" was invented by Christian Fiedler (Vienna), Leopold Grillberger (Winchester, Mass.), Meinhard Hasslacher (Vienna), Barbara Kraus (Obersdorf, Austria), Dominik Mittergradnegger (Vienna), Stefan Reuberger (Vienna), Horst Schafhauser (Vienna) and Marian Bendik (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of producing an adeno-associated virus (AAV) product, methods of purifying adeno-associated virus, and methods of purifying full AAV capsids from a concentrated...