ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,824, issued on June 17, was assigned to SARTORIUS STEDIM FMT (Aubagne, France).
"Unit for the sterile filling of a final basic container with contents designed for the biopharmaceutical field" was invented by Isabelle Gay (Peypin, France) and Nicolas Mendyk (Peypin, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile filling unit, of a basic container with contents that can be distributed in a fluid form and that is originally located in a source container in a sterile manner, includes a sterile chamber with at least one sterile entry port and/or outlet; a sterile fluid transfer and filling line with an intake and an outlet, such that fo...