US Patent Issued to Haemonetics on June 30 for "Methods and devices for the enrichment of immunoglobulin from blood" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,609, issued on June 30, was assigned to Haemonetics Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and devices for the enrichment of immunoglobulin from blood" was invented by Samuel O. Sowemimo-Coker (Dix Hills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting at least 55% of immunoglobulin such as IgG from a biological fluid. The biological fluid containing immunoglobulin is contacted with a solid support covalently bonded to a ligand that specifically binds to immunoglobulin under conditions sufficient for non-covalent binding of immunoglobulin to the ligand. The solid support is contacted with an elution solution under conditions whereby th...