US Patent Issued to Amgen on Aug. 18 for "Methods for harvesting biomolecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,632, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Methods for harvesting biomolecules" was invented by Thomas Clark Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.), Sarah Whetstone (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Jeremy S. Conner (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods of purifying native and recombinant biomolecules, e.g., proteins, from mammalian cells using purification protocols incorporating harvest recovery operations involving decanter centrifugation of at least one target biomolecule from at least one particulate component of cell culture fluid. The unexpected capacity of dec...