US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY on Sept. 9 for "Factory-on-a-chip for production of biologically derived medicines/biopharmaceuticals/biologics/biotherapeutics" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,390, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore).

"Factory-on-a-chip for production of biologically derived medicines/biopharmaceuticals/biologics/biotherapeutics" was invented by Govind Rao (Ellicott City, Md.), Yordan Kostov (Columbia, Md.), Abhay Andar (Gaithersburg, Md.), Mustafa Al-Adhami (Silver Spring, Md.), Sevda Deldari (Baltimore) and Douglas D. Frey (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a fully integrated microfluidic system capable of producing single-dose amounts of biotherapeutics at the point-of-care wherein protein production, purifica...