US Patent Issued to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES on May 19 for "Membrane sealing layer and spacer ring for viral clearance chromatography device" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,611, issued on May 19, was assigned to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Membrane sealing layer and spacer ring for viral clearance chromatography device" was invented by Kannan Dasharathi (St. Paul, Minn.), Jonathan F. Hester (Hudson, Wis.), Gregory M. Jellum (Marine on St. Croix, Minn.) and Angelines Castro Forero (Hudson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chromatography device having a housing having an inlet and an outlet. At least two layers of media disposed between the inlet and the outlet inside of the housing forming a media stack, with at least one of the layers comprising a functionalized layer. An optional s...