ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,478, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Benchling Inc. (San Francisco).

"Computing platform for bioprocess design, execution, analysis, and technology transfer" was invented by Dane Colin Pieri (Winchester, Mass.), Liu Liu (San Francisco), Ashutosh Singhal (San Francisco), Lucas Zulauf (Oakland, Calif.), Swathi Sundar (San Francisco) and Vineet Gopal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a computing platform that supports bioprocess design, execution, analysis, and technology transfer. One of the methods includes receiving, by...