ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,526, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PHC HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell culture control device, cell culture device provided with same, cell culture control method, and cell culture control program" was invented by Satoshi Fukumoto (Ehime, Japan), Keisuke Taira (Ehime, Japan), Shougo Fukushima (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyoshi Tokumaru (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PC comprises a measurement unit, a consumption rate calculation unit, a culture medium replacement detection unit, and a next step transition determination unit. The measurement unit acquires the amount of consumed glucose from the result of continuously meas...