ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,996, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell culture system and cell culture method" was invented by Hidetoshi Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Koju Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Oba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keisuke Oku (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture system includes: a plurality of cell culture channels each of which includes a fluidic device in which cells are cultured, a pump which makes a liquid flow into the fluidic device, a detection unit which detects a state of the cells that are cultured, and a controller which controls the pump and the detection unit; a measurement unit tha...