ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,654, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Bioprocessing system and consumable bag for a bioprocessing system" was invented by Michelle Parziale (Marlborough, Mass.), Hanna-Leena Saukkonen (Boston), Michael Miller (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Christopher Dunn (Longmeadow, Mass.), Kenneth Mellace (Abington, Mass.), Elizabeth Stegner (Rye, N.H.), Ralph Stankowski (Westborough, Mass.), Ian Darisse (Southborough, Mass.) and Keith Benoit (Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioreactor system, includes a base platform, a lid received atop the base platform and defining an inter...