ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,345, issued on March 17, was assigned to Repligen Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Chromatography column packing medium recovery" was invented by Travis R. Ward (Medford, Mass.), James Ronald Peyser (Billerica, Mass.), Dana Pentia (Arlington, Mass.) and Evan Frankel (Hyde Park, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems include a chromatography column tube having an inlet and outlet and port assembly arranged in a wall of the column tube between flow distributors that together form a chamber within the tube that is filled with packing medium are described. The port assembly facilitates the removal of resin from the pre-packed column and t...