US Patent Issued to Illumina on Oct. 6 for "Methods and systems for encapsulating lyophilised microspheres" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,433, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for encapsulating lyophilised microspheres" was invented by Sebastien Ricoult (Sawston, Great Britain), Matthias Plitzko (Mullheim, Germany) and Bernhard Luy (Mullheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method, including providing one or more lyophilised microspheres in a mixing vessel at a first temperature and generating a fluidized bed of the one or more lyophilised microspheres in the mixing vessel, under conditions effective to encapsulate the one or more lyophilised microspheres with a coating formulati...