ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,170, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Methods and systems for performing perfusion cell culture" was invented by Jochen Sieck (Darmstadt, Germany) and Christian Schultheiss (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and systems for performing perfusion cell culture whereby the supernatant of the bleed stream is recovered."

The patent was filed on Nov. 5, 2020, under Application No. 17/770,451.

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