Patents by Inventor Eric Valery

Eric Valery has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8752417
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating fractions of a mixture to be separated including the steps of providing a device comprising at least two chromatography columns mounted in series, discontinuously injecting a mixture to be separated, in a single point of the device, discontinuously drawing off the fraction enriched in the product of interest, in a single point of the device, and injecting eluents in each column and displacing the points for injection eluents, the eluents having a different eluting power. The method allows efficient separation which is simple to perform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Novasep
    Inventors: Eric Valery, Hector Osuna Sanchez, Michel Bailly
  • Patent number: 8465649
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for separating biomolecules from an aqueous solution containing the biomolectules and impurities, having different affinities and/or interactions with a solid support. The solution is passed over a fixed bed of chromatographic resin containing at least three zones, with flow of liquid being arranged between adjacent zones and between a last and first zone. Each of several sequences includes at least an adsorption stage, a rinsing stage, or a desorption stage, with each subsequent sequence being carried out by a downstream displacement of fronts in the zones by approximately the same increment before the periodical displacement of the introduction and withdrawal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Groupe Novasep
    Inventors: Marc-André Theoleyre, Stanislas Baudouin, Annick Merrien, Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger, David Laurent, Margit Holzer
  • Publication number: 20120214966
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for separating biomolecules from an aqueous solution containing the biomolecules and impurities, having different affinities and/or interactions with a solid support. The solution is passed over a fixed bed of chromatographic resin containing at least three zones, with flow of liquid being arranged between adjacent zones and between a last and first zone. Each of several sequences includes at least an adsorption stage, a rinsing stage, or a desorption stage, with each subsequent sequence being carried out by a downstream displacement of fronts in the zones by approximately the same increment before the periodical displacement of the introduction and withdrawal points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: GROUPE NOVASEP
    Inventors: Marc-André Theoleyre, Stanislas Baudouin, Annick Merrien, Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger, David Laurent, Margit Holzer
  • Patent number: 8216475
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for separating fractions of a mixture using a chromatography device. The method includes the following steps: controlling in one node of the device, the history of a specific variable of the fractions of the mixture to be separated; detecting one characteristic point of the history, the characteristic point being between two successive steps of fraction collecting; comparing the position of the characteristic point relative to a target position; adjusting the amount of mobile phase modifying the position of the characteristic point to cause the position of the characteristic point to coincide with the target position. The invention also concerns a device for implementing the method. The method enables the operation of the device to be automatically set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Novasep
    Inventors: Eric Valery, Céline Morey
  • Patent number: 8182696
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for separating biomolecules from an aqueous solution containing the biomolectules and impurities, having different affinities and/or interactions with a solid support. The solution is passed over a fixed bed of chromatographic resin containing at least three zones, with flow of liquid being arranged between adjacent zones and between a last and first zone. Each of several sequences includes at least an adsorption stage, a rinsing stage, or a desorption stage, with each subsequent sequence being carried out by a downstream displacement of fronts in the zones by approximately the same increment before the periodical displacement of the introduction and withdrawal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Groupe Novasep
    Inventors: Marc-André Theoleyre, Stanislas Baudouin, Annick Merrien, Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger, David Laurent, Margit Holzer
  • Publication number: 20110168632
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for separating fractions of a mixture to be separated, in a device (1) comprising: several chromatography columns (21, 22, 23,) mounted in series; an open separation loop comprising in input a point for injecting (6) eluent in one of the columns and in output a point for drawing (8) a fraction of the mixture. The method includes the following steps: batch injection of the mixture to be separated in the open separation loop (4); collecting at least two fractions; offsetting at least one column of the eluent injecting and fraction drawing points (6, 8) of the separation loop (4). The invention also concerns a device for separating fractions of a mixture to be separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger
  • Publication number: 20110030457
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating fractions of a mixture to be separated comprising the steps of providing a device comprising at least two chromatography columns mounted in series, discontinuously injecting a mixture to be separated, in a single point of the device, discontinuously drawing off the fraction enriched in the product of interest, in a single point of the device, injecting eluents in each column and displacing the points for injecting eluents, the eluents having a different eluting power. The method allows efficient separation which is simple to perform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: NOVASEP
    Inventors: Eric Valery, Hector Osuna Sanchez, Michel Bailly
  • Publication number: 20110000853
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for separating fractions of a mixture using a chromatography device. The method includes the following steps: controlling in one node of the device, the history of a specific variable of the fractions of the mixture to be separated; detecting one characteristic point of the history, the characteristic point being between two successive steps of fraction collecting; comparing the position of the characteristic point relative to a target position; adjusting the amount of mobile phase modifying the position of the characteristic point to cause the position of the characteristic point to coincide with the target position. The invention also concerns a device for implementing the method. The method enables the operation of the device to be automatically set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: NOVASEP
    Inventors: Eric Valery, Céline Morey
  • Publication number: 20100012584
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a method for enriching by chromatography of one or more compounds of a mixture in at least one column using an eluent, characterized in that a liquid mobile phase containing dissolved gas is used as eluent. A further object of the invention in the use in preparative chromatography of an eluent composed of a liquid mobile phase containing a dissolved gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: Novasep
    Inventors: Wieslaw Majewski, Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger
  • Publication number: 20090209736
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is separation on a solid support by multi-column sequential selective retention in order to separate a product of interest from a solution containing such a product of interest, by passing this solution over a fixed chromatographic resin bed comprising at least three zones, liquid flow means being placed between adjacent zones and between the last zone and the first zone, this process comprising several sequences, each sequence comprising at least one step chosen from an absorption step, a rinsing step and a desorption step, carried out either simultaneously or not, each following sequence is carried out by the displacement of the fronts in the zones towards the downstream end substantially of the same increment before the periodic displacement of the points of introduction and of withdrawal, characterized in that the process includes a sub-sequence without injection of the charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Marc-André Theoleyre, Stanislas Baudouin, Annick Merrien, Eric Valery, Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger, Laurent David, Margit Holzer