US Patent Issued to Amgen on Sept. 8 for "Monitoring vial conditions during a lyophilization process" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,911, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Monitoring vial conditions during a lyophilization process" was invented by Christopher John Garvin (Kingston, R.I.), Fabrice Schlegel (Cambridge, Mass.), Gioval Scalzo (Dublin), Colm Bambury (Dublin), Deniz Bac (Barrington, R.I.) and Christian Ruitberg (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating real-time monitoring of conditions within a vial during a lyophilization process occurring within a lyophilization chamber includes, for each of a plurality of time intervals during the lyophilization process, determining current values o...