US Patent Issued to Cygnus Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Methods and kits for quantifying the removal of mock virus particles from a purified solution" (Maryland, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,894, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cygnus Technologies LLC (Leland, N.C.).

"Methods and kits for quantifying the removal of mock virus particles from a purified solution" was invented by David Cetlin (Potomac, Md.) and Arun Dhar (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of quantifying the amount of Mock Virus Particles (MVP) removed from a solution as a result of processing that solution through a purification technique. This method involves the steps of adding MVP to a solution, processing the solution through a purification technique, quantifying the amount of MVP removed from the ...