ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,881, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG (Goettingen, Germany).

"Method for supporting a user of a biotechnological laboratory" was invented by Reinhard Baumfalk (Goettingen, Germany), Kai Gloth (Goettingen, Germany), Pasi Kankaanpaeae (Goettingen, Germany), Rico Luedeke (Hardegsen, Germany) and Thomas Schink (Goettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supporting a user of a biotechnological laboratory to execute a biotechnological experiment with a real life experiment workflow in the laboratory based on a nominal experiment workflow using a data processing system comprising...