US Patent Issued to Sartorius BIA Separations d.o.o.q on Nov. 3 for "Removal of RNA and contaminants from DNA plasmid preparations by hydrophobic interaction chromatography" (Slovene, Slovenian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,216, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sartorius BIA Separations d.o.o.q (Ajdovscina, Slovenia).

"Removal of RNA and contaminants from DNA plasmid preparations by hydrophobic interaction chromatography" was invented by Peter S. Gagnon (Las Vegas), Rok Sekirnik (Ajdovscina, Slovenia) and Klemen Bozic (Ajdovscina, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for manufacturing a purified pDNA preparation from a sample comprising pDNA and a contaminant, the method comprising the steps of: Contacting the sample with a hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) material in a solution comprising a kosmotropic salt in a con...