ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,572, issued on May 27, was assigned to FACELLITATE GMBH (Mannheim, Germany).

"Devices for cultivating cells coated with a copolymer of polyethyleneglykol (meth)acrylate" was invented by Rupert Konradi (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Veronique Schwartz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Seufert (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Lars David Renner (Dresden, Germany), Uwe Freudenberg (Dresden, Germany) and Carsten Werner (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device D for cultivating cell cultures C, wherein said device D has a surface O and comprises on its surface O at least one polymer P wherein said polymer P is a copolymer of at least one m...