US Patent Issued to Boehringer Ingelheim International on Sept. 16 for "Method for membrane gas transfer in high density bioreactor culture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,980, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Method for membrane gas transfer in high density bioreactor culture" was invented by Jonathan Coffman (Gaithersbury, Calif.), Scott Godfrey (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Lisa Sawicki (Brisbane, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides improved bioprocessing systems and methods for cell culture using the improved bioreactors, e.g., batch-fed or perfusion bioreactor cell culture systems for production of monoclonal or bi-specific antibodies, which are modified to include one or more membrane gas trans...