ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,575, issued on May 27, was assigned to CCLabs Pty Ltd (Melbourne, Australia).
"Closed-loop perfusion circuit for cell and tissue cultures" was invented by Hon Weng Chong (Toorak, Australia), Chew Ling Lau (Melbourne, Australia) and Andrew Doherty (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed-loop perfusion system may include a sealed biological culture container configured to house a biological cell culture, and a filtering unit that permits passage of waste products from an output of the sealed biological cell culture container, permits passage of nutrients from a nutrient media solution, and blocks passage of benefi...