ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,712, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies UK Ltd. (Billingham, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for purifying a liquid comprising a target substance" was invented by Tibor Nagy (Billingham, Great Britain), Jonathan Haigh (Billingham, Great Britain), Charles Heise (Billingham, Great Britain), Andrew Topping (Billingham, Great Britain) and James Pullen (Billingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for purifying a liquid comprising a target substance comprising at least two units arranged in series such that the feed stream of the second and any subsequent units comprises the product strea...