US Patent Issued to Sartorius Stedim FMT on Dec. 16 for "Stirring device with a shaft, adapted to be mounted in a fluid-mixing bioreactor, and method for assembling a stirring device" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,584, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim FMT SAS (Aubagne, France).

"Stirring device with a shaft, adapted to be mounted in a fluid-mixing bioreactor, and method for assembling a stirring device" was invented by Jeremy Gibelin (Signes, France), Daniel Pessey (Aix en Provence, France) and Sebastian Purmann (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stirring device, in particular for a fluid-mixing bioreactor, comprises a drive shaft including a rod, an agitating element and a sleeve of tubular shape. The sleeve forms a coupling sleeve receiving the shaft therethrough and is directly rotationally coupled to ...