US Patent Issued to United Therapeutics, The United State of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on July 15 for "Method for purifying antibodies" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,946, issued on July 15, was assigned to United Therapeutics Corp. (Silver Spring, Md.) and The United State of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Method for purifying antibodies" was invented by David Meh (Columbia, Md.), Timothy Atolagbe (Elkridge, Md.), G. Mark Farquharson (Vienna, Va.), Samir Shaban (Frederick, Md.), Mary Koleck (Rockville, Md.) and George Mitra (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here includes a method for purifying a biologic composition, comprising diafiltering the biologic composition into a composition comprising phosphate buf...