ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,644, issued on June 30, was assigned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, N.Y.).

"Antibody-based method to identify, purify, and manipulate cell types and processes" was invented by Hannes E. Buelow (Bronx, N.Y.), Ulrich G. Steidl (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Steven C. Almo (Pelham, N.Y.), Robert A. Townley (Shorewood, Wis.), Richard Pisczcaztowski (Rutherford, N.J.), Ron Seidel III (Bronx, N.Y.) and Sriram Sundaravel (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to compositions and methods of identifying, isolating, and modulating cells and tissues based on their cellular glycosaminoglycan pattern. In some a...