ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,708, issued on April 29, was assigned to SARTORIUS STEDIM BIOTECH GMBH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Liquid filtering method and system" was invented by Karl Pflanz (Goettingen, Germany), Sebastian Pruehl (Wehnde, Germany), Andreas Pickl (Klein Schneen, Germany), Roland Leetsch (Bovenden, Germany), Adam Gilbert (Bristol, Great Britain) and Martin Purshouse (Clevedon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering system (10) includes a filtering apparatus having a filter unit for receiving liquid to be filtered, a receptacle for receiving filtered liquid, and an adapter (14) for coupling the filter unit to the receptacle, and also...