ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,166, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nextern Innovation LLC (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

"Cell culture system with controlled gas transfer boundary conditions" was invented by Jon F. Urban (Minneapolis), Riazul Islam (St. Paul, Minn.), John Swoyer (Blaine, Minn.), Fernando Buarque (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and John D. Foley (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to cell culture systems having controlled gas concentration boundary conditions around cell culture. In an illustrative example, a programmable cell culture system (PCCS) may include one or more manifolds, each releasably coupl...