ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,789, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing cell laminate" was invented by Masafumi Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan), Koju Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Mima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hayato Miyoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a cell laminate including cell layers on both surfaces of a porous membrane, using a vessel having a bottom portion and a side wall portion standing from a periphery of the bottom portion, the porous membrane, and a holding member configured to hold the porous membrane such that the porous membrane faces an inner bottom surface ...