ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,829, issued on July 1, was assigned to GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Bioreactor tray" was invented by Haresh Digambar Patil (Bangalore, India), Anoop Bhargav (Bangalore, India), Praveen Paul (Bangalore, India) and Sebastian John (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray configured to be provided on a base station of a bioreactor system, said tray comprising a bottom and surrounding side walls and being configured to hold a bioreactor bag, said bottom comprising at least two bottom parts, whereof one is a middle part of the bottom, wherein at least one of the bottom parts is movable into at...