Patent 7118804 was granted and assigned to Pierce Biotechnology on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of using a pellet composed of an aggregate of distinct beads of a chromatography media. The pellet is coherent and capable of being rapidly hydrated on addition of water to form a gel wherein said beads are swollen and substantially uniformly dispersed in the water phase and a combination of the a ligand with the chromatography media.