US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on June 16 for "Viral extraction from cell culture" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,397, issued on June 16, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Viral extraction from cell culture" was invented by Hue Tran (Calgary, Canada), Matthew Coffey (Calgary, Canada), Allison Hagerman (Calgary, Canada), Robert Voyer (Lachine, Canada), Krishna Raj Tiwari (Mont-Royal, Canada), Jyoti Latawa (Mont-Royal, Canada), Mehul Patel (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada) and Allan Matte (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of producing virus from a culture of host cells. The methods include providing a culture of host cells which has been infected by the virus; contactin...