ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,911, issued on May 13, was assigned to SARTORIUS STEDIM FMT (Aubagne, France).

"Port, dispensing system comprising such a port, and manufacturing method" was invented by Alain Pallares (La Bouilladisse, France), Ali Barhoumi (Mhamdia Ben Arous, Tunisia) and Marie-Christine Menier (La Ciotat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A port is suitable for attachment to a container and suitable for being traversed by a needle used to transfer content between the inside of the container and the outside of the container, and includes a rigid annular body extending in a direction including a side wall surrounding a channel extending between ...