ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,678, issued on March 18, was assigned to MicrofluidX Ltd (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for bioprocessing" was invented by Cesare M. Cejas (Edgware, Great Britain), Antonio de Grazia (St. Albans, Great Britain), Manjari Ghanshyam (Hatfield, Great Britain), James Kusena (Hempstead, Great Britain) and Sreedhar Mareddy (Chelmsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for bioprocessing. The systems and methods can be implemented using a chip (solid support comprising a bioprocessing chamber). The bioprocessing chamber can be fluidically connected to a feeding...