ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,413, issued on May 13, was assigned to FLASKWORKS LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for cell culturing" was invented by Shashi K. Murthy (Newton, Mass.) and Andrew Kozbial (East Boston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cell culture systems and methods provide improved immunotherapeutic product manufacturing with greater scalability, flexibility, and automation. Cell culture systems are configured with interchangeable cartridges, allowing versatility and scalability. Systems are configured to have multiple connected cell culture chambers, which allows parallel processing of different types of cells. Gas-impermeable cell culture c...