ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,220, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SARTORIUS BIA SEPARATIONS (Ajdovscina, Slovenia).

"Purification process for lipid-membrane-enclosed complex assemblages" was invented by Peter S. Gagnon (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chromatographic method for separation of lipid-membrane-enclosed compound assemblages (LMCAs) from chromatin heteroaggregates including degraded remnants from LMCAs in a sample, contacting the sample with a chromatographic material with a surface having cationic metal affinity ligands said chromatographic material being charged with ferric iron, manganese, calcium, or magnesium ions, and being equilib...