Stockholm, Sweden – Polymer Factory has been granted the SpheriCal patent in several European countries. The patent, valid for 20 years, is titled “Functionalized calibrants for spectrometry and chromatography” and was filed on May 29, 2018.

The granted patent covers the following countries: United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and Slovenia.

“Intellectual property rights including patents carry significant commercial value, and it is therefore crucial to have a strong patent strategy that protects the company’s technology. As we now begin entering larger agreements with major international companies with strong resources, this becomes particularly important,” said Mats Wallnér, CEO of Polymer Factory.

Polymer Factory was founded in 2006 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and its Board of Directors have been essential in driving dendritic nanotechnology research to commercialization for almost 15 years – expertise that has been transferred to the Company’s products. Emerging from many years of cutting-edge research within the field, Polymer Factory today has, in the Company’s assessment, the world’s largest product portfolio of dendritic materials with customers ranging from Big Pharma, MedTech and BioTech companies, to research-intensive institutes and academic research groups. Polymer Factory has also used the Company’s vast knowledge and expertise to develop a patented calibration technology, named SpheriCal®, designed for Mass Spectrometry instruments.