US Patent Issued to JNC on March 17 for "Hydrophobic interaction chromatography carrier and protein purification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,275, issued on March 17, was assigned to JNC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hydrophobic interaction chromatography carrier and protein purification method" was invented by Kojiro Sota (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chromatography carrier capable of removing an antibody dimer from a solution containing an antibody monomer. The chromatography carrier includes a base carrier containing porous particles and a hydrophobic ligand bound to the base carrier, and has an electric conductivity of 34 mS/cm or less measured by a gradient elution test. The porous particles preferably have an average p...