ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,995, issued on April 22, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).
"System and method for characterizing bioreactor fluids" was invented by David Blumberg Jr. (Deerfield, N.H.), Michael C. Tilley (Amherst, N.H.), Derek G. Kane (Manchester, N.H.) and David C. Nivens (Hollis, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance device for monitoring growth of tissue in one or more bioreactors. The device can include a first magnet and a second magnet that can form a uniform magnetic field of desired strength around at least one sample of effluent from at least one bioreactor. At the command of a controller, an RF signal c...