ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,688, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
"Stable frozen virus formulation" was invented by Jennifer R. Litowski (Arlington, Mass.), Christine Claudia Siska (Seattle) and Bruce Arthur Kerwin (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A live virus composition that maintains infectivity and provides improved virus stability during one or more freeze/thaw cycles and/or during long term storage in a liquid state at temperatures ranging from just above freezing to ambient temperatures."
The patent was filed on Sept. 4, 2020, under Application No. 17/012,771.
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