ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,280, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell culture device, method for culturing cells, and method for producing product" was invented by Naoto Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nakai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Sakuyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the cell culture device, a volume of a space defined by a diaphragm of the diaphragm pump and a plane at an outer edge of the diaphragm is 1 cm3 or more and 20 cm3 or less, in a case where an angle formed by a straight line connecting a foot of a perpendicular line from the apex to the plane to each point in the diaphragm and by the pe...