ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,512, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cellares Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for control of cell processing system" was invented by Tony Biz (South San Francisco, Calif.), Vladimir Azersky (San Jose, Calif.), Adam Newton Wold (San Francisco) and Brian Alexander Pesch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are cell processing systems, devices, and methods thereof. A system for cell processing may comprise a plurality of instruments each independently configured to perform one or more cell processing operations upon a cartridge, and a robot capable of moving the cartridge between eac...