ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,504, issued on July 28, was assigned to enGenes Biotech GmbH (Vienna).

"Continuous bioproduction by decoupling growth and production" was invented by Juergen Mairhofer (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of recombinant biotechnology, in particular in the field of protein expression and nucleotide production. The invention generally relates to systems and processes that are suitable or comprise a two stage production process, in which the growth of the bacterial host cell is spatiotemporally separated from the production of the protein or nucleic acid of interest. Accordingly, the present inven...