US Patent Issued to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Aug. 11 for "Online native mass spectrometry methods for assaying viral particles" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,515, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Online native mass spectrometry methods for assaying viral particles" was invented by Victoria Cotham (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Shunhai Wang (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Ning Li (New Canaan, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for determining the relative abundance of viral capsid components in a sample of viral particles are disclosed. In embodiments, methods for determining the relative abundance of empty capsids, partially-full capsids and full capsids (e.g., containing a heterologous nucleic acid molecule) of adeno-associated virus are discl...