ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,652, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Molecular Devices LLC (San Jose, Calif.) and Molecular Devices (Austria) GmbH (Austria).

"Method and system for cultivating cells in media-exchanging wells" was invented by Oksana Sirenko (San Jose, Calif.), Andreas Kenda (Puch/hallein, Austria) and Josef Atzler (Puch/hallein, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for cultivating cells in media-exchanging wells. In an exemplary method of cell cultivation, a device (50) may be selected that includes a row of wells (52), and a first reservoir (56) and a second reservoir (58) located at opposite ends of the row of ...