ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,660, issued on July 8, was assigned to G-CON Manufacturing Inc. (College Station, Texas).

"Modular, self-contained, mobile clean room" was invented by R. Barry Holtz (Houston), Troy Arledge (Rockdale, Texas), Phillip B. Maples (Pilot Point, Texas) and David M. Shanahan (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biosafety units, methods of making and sealing the same are disclosed herein. The present invention includes a unitary structure able to be validated for pharmaceutical manufacturing comprising: at least one controlled air, sealable, sterilizable cleanroom; a mechanical system room adjacent to and separate from the cleanroom compri...