ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,612, issued on April 29, was assigned to Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. (Solon, Ohio).

"Containers containing degradable carriers" was invented by Katie Campbell (Northborough, Mass.), Natasha Anna Boghosian (Boston), Natalie Fekete (Marlborough, Mass.) and Rachel Z. Pytel (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to containers (e.g., in the form of bags) comprising a fluoropolymer and containing a degradable carrier comprising biological agent-capturing moieties, to cell isolation systems comprising such containers, and to methods for cultivating a biological agent using such containers. In one em...