ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,857, issued on July 22, was assigned to SHIKOKU INSTRUMENTATION Co. LTD. (Kagawa, Japan).

"Multi-layer culture vessel operation system, multi-layer culture vessel operational device, and multi-layer culture vessel operation method" was invented by Toshiaki Mori (Nakatado-gun, Japan), Hideki Takeda (Nakatado-gun, Japan), Yasufumi Mishima (Nakatado-gun, Japan) and Shoji Matsuoka (Nakatado-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer culture vessel operation system capable of easily performing a multi-layer culture vessel handling operation is provided. A multi-layer culture vessel operation system includes: a cart device 20 ...