ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,299, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ESCO BIOENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Carrier for cell biomass production and cell culture device comprising the same" was invented by King-Ming Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional porous growth surface (carriers) and cell culture devices including the same are provided. The carriers are made by multiple layers of netting or mesh, especially large dimension and area of fabrics that are capable to form a column-type fixed bed by rolling the layers or other shape of fixed bed by stacking or randomly disposed packing the carriers to form a packed-be...