ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,791, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).
"Predicting the metabolic condition of a cell culture" was invented by Wolfgang Paul (Penzberg, Germany), Arthur Mohr (Penzberg, Germany) and Sayuri Hortsch (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for predicting the metabolic condition of a cell culture of cells of a specific cell type. The method comprises providing (102) a metabolic model (402) of a cell of the specific cell type and carrying out the following steps at each of a plurality of points in time during the cultivation of the cell culture: receiving (106) mea...