ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,978, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UNIVERCELLS TECHNOLOGIES S.A. (Nivelles, Belgium).
"Bioreactor and related methods" was invented by Jose Castillo (Brussels), Bastien Mairesse (Uccle, Belgium) and Sebastien Jean-Pierre Michel Rodriguez (Ecaussinnes-Lalaing, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for culturing cells includes a bioreactor. The bioreactor may be modular and may include in a chamber a fixed bed, such as an unstructured or structured fixed bed (such as a spiral bed) for culturing cells, with a return column arranged centrally within the chamber. The modular bioreactor may include a plurality of struc...