ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,192, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Methods of protein production" was invented by Inn Huam Yuk (Berkeley, Calif.), Bradley Richard Snedecor (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Dana Christian Andersen (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing glycation of an amino acid in a protein produced by a host cell in cell culture medium is disclosed."
The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2025, under Application No. 19/326,617.
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