ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,615, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).
"Separation apparatus and method" was invented by Andrew Lawrence Zydney (University Park, Pa.) and Christopher J. Yehl (University Park, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protein separation can be provided based on a High Performance Countercurrent Membrane Purification (HPCMP), which can exploit highly selective diffusive transport across thin walls of a hollow fiber membrane for separation of proteins. Embodiments of an HPCMP system can separate mixtures of multiple proteins (e.g. separate BSA and Mb) or other biological material and ...