ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,357, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to I Peace Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Cell culture equipment" was invented by Koji Tanabe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ryoji Hiraide (Kyoto, Japan), Kenta Suto (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kazunori Ban (Yamanashi, Japan) and Satoshi Kinoshita (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture equipment comprising a culture component permeable member 10 that is permeable to culture components, a culture vessel 30 that covers one side of the culture component permeable member 10 and holds a cell-containing medium, and a medium holding vessel 40 that covers the other s...