ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,072, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Method for conducting a bioprocess" 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: "A method for conducting a bioprocess with a digital control unit of a bioprocess arrangement, wherein the digital control unit comprises a local data storage and a local processor unit, wherein bioprocess data are generated by the digital control unit. It is proposed, that in a data safety routine, a documentation routine and a signing routine a...