US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on Aug. 11 for "System and methods for scalable melanin purification" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,705, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"System and methods for scalable melanin purification" was invented by Anna M Crumbley (Abingdon, Md.), Frank J Kragl (Churchville, Md.), Phuong Vi Luu Le (Middle River, Md.) and Henry S Gibbons (Bel Air, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for isolating melanins from a medium that include providing tangential filtration of the medium across a membrane with a 300 kilo Dalton or less cutoff. In some aspects, the methods and systems are suitable for large scale preparations due t...