US Patent Issued to Pentracor on July 21 for "Using an alkalihydroxide solution for the regeneration of an apheresis column" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,808, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pentracor GmbH (Hennigsdorf, Germany).

"Using an alkalihydroxide solution for the regeneration of an apheresis column" was invented by Ahmed Sheriff (Berlin), Stephan Mattecka (Berlin) and Birgit Vogt (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of alkali hydroxide for the regeneration of apheresis columns for the affinity chromatographic removal of CRP and a method for the simplified regeneration of apheresis columns for the affinity chromatographic removal of CRP with the use of an alkali hydroxide solution and apheresis devices which are designed in such a ...