US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Continuous microwave drying for vaccines" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,687, issued on March 24.

"Continuous microwave drying for vaccines" was invented by Andrew John Clapham (Hummelstown, Pa.) and Charles Heldebrant (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous microwave vacuum-drying method includes loading, onto a conveyor belt, a lower half of an integrated container, filing, by a frozen-drug dispenser, a first chamber of a lower half of an integrated container with a frozen compound, exposing, by microwave emitters within a vacuum chamber, the frozen compound of the first chamber of the lower half of the integrated container to microwave radiation to lyophilize the frozen compound i...