ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,597, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Modular processing system and method for the modular construction of a processing system" was invented by Martin Leuthold (Goettingen, Germany) and Stefan Weisshaar (Adelebsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular processing system (100) for biopharmaceutical processes includes (i) at least one first and at least one second processing unit (30, 32), which can be fluidically connected to each other; and (ii) at least one adapter plate (200), through which at least one fluid flow (14), flowing from the first processing unit (30) to...