ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,729, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Digital control unit of a bioprocess arrangement" was invented by Robert Soeldner (Goettingen, Germany), Jonas Austerjost (Rietberg, Germany) and David James Pollard (Bohemia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to a digital control unit of a bioprocess arrangement for controlling a bioprocess, wherein the digital control unit comprises a local data storage and a local processor unit, wherein the digital control unit comprises a bioprocess interface for sending and receiving bioprocess control data, wherein the digit...