US Patent Issued to NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES, FUJIFILM BIOSCIENCES on June 30 for "MDCK suspension cell lines in serum-free, chemically-defined media for vaccine production" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,612, issued on June 30, was assigned to NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES (Zhunan Town, Taiwan) and FUJIFILM BIOSCIENCES INC. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"MDCK suspension cell lines in serum-free, chemically-defined media for vaccine production" was invented by Jenny Bang (Santa Ana, Calif.), Hsiao-Tzu Ni (Santa Ana, Calif.), Alan Yung-Chih Hu (Zhunan Town, Taiwan) and Tsai-Chuan Weng (Zhunan Town, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an adapted Madin-Darby canine kidney cell line capable of suspension culture in the absence of serum, and a chemically-defined medium for culture of the adapted MDCK cell line. Further disclose...