ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,664, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cellares Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Cartridges for cell processing" was invented by Brian Alexander Pesch (San Francisco), Fabian Gerlinghaus (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Nicholas Scott Reimnitz (South San Francisco, Calif.).
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 each of the plurality of instruments....