Pressure BioSciences Inc. (NASQ:PBIO) has five new patents to protect its intellectual property following recent actions by U.S. and foreign regulatory bodies.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Easton, Mass.-based PBIO a patent for its pressure-enhanced extraction and purification technology, complementing the company’s three previously issued patents for pressure-cycling inventions. Regulators in Japan and Canada each issued a new patent to PBIO recently, while IP Australia issued two patents.
The new rulings increase the company‘s patent total to 24 — 14 in the U.S. and three each in Europe and Australia and two apiece in Japan and Canada.