US Patent Issued to Genzyme on March 31 for "Flare (flow cytometry attenuated reporter expression) technology for rapid bulk sorting" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,880, issued on March 31, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Flare (flow cytometry attenuated reporter expression) technology for rapid bulk sorting" was invented by Victor R. Cairns (Cambridge, Mass.), Jose Ignacio Sancho Chavida (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christine DeMaria (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for batch production of producer cells using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). In some aspects, the disclosure provides a drug-selection-free method for batch production of producer cells using FACS. Such batch production methods and compositions ca...