ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,552, issued on March 25, was assigned to STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for adaptive passage of a culture of cells" was invented by Emanuel Nazareth (Vancouver, Canada), Eric Jervis (Vancouver, Canada), Martin O'Keane (Vancouver, Canada), Tia Sojonky (Vancouver, Canada) and Mark Romanish (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems and methods for the adaptive passage of a culture of cells and apparatus and methods for dissociating cell colonies are described. The systems may include an imaging module, a pipette module, a handling module, and/or a stage ...