US Patent Issued to Sartorius Stedim Biotech on May 27 for "Valve switching system for selectively interconnecting components of a bioprocess installation" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,287, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Valve switching system for selectively interconnecting components of a bioprocess installation" was invented by Dinesh Shukla (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve switching system for selectively interconnecting components of a bioprocess installation, comprising a valve switching cassette and an actuator block. It is proposed, that the valve switching cassette comprises a perforated sandwich plate with perforation holes, which sandwich plate is placed between the cassette manifold and the actuator block body."

The patent wa...