ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,197, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oxford Biomedica (US) LLC (Bedford, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for the purification of adeno-associated virus" was invented by Michael Mercaldi (Bedford, Mass.), Ashish Sharma (Bedford, Mass.), Thomas Thiers (Bedford, Mass.), Luke Mustich (Bedford, Mass.), Shanshan Zhou (Bedford, Mass.), Zaid Junaid (Bedford, Mass.), Iraj Ghazi (Bedford, Mass.), Achyuta Teella (Bedford, Mass.) and Alex Meola (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for the separation of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) particle from a mixture of the AAV and at least one con...