ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,963, issued on March 24, was assigned to CYTIVA BIOPROCESS R&D AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Separation matrix and method of separation" was invented by Jean-Luc Maloisel (Uppsala, Sweden), Jimmy Hedin Dahlstrom (Uppsala, Sweden), Marc Hummersone (Stevenage, Great Britain), Ola Lind (Uppsala, Sweden), Sara Haggblad Sahlberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Jon Lundqvist (Uppsala, Sweden) and Tania Ahmad (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a separation matrix comprising a plurality of multimodal ligands covalently coupled to a support, wherein said support is a membrane comprising nonwoven polymer fibers and wherein sa...