ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,615, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VANRX PHARMASYSTEMS INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for aseptically filling pharmaceutical containers with a pharmaceutical fluid using rotary stage" was invented by Juvenal Naing (Belcarra, Canada), Yacov Gofman (Richmond, Canada) and Marcin Cichy (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for filling nested pharmaceutical containers with a pharmaceutical fluid is disclosed. In one general aspect, it comprises a sterilizable chamber containing a planar rotary stage with a fiducial locating structure for holding a pharmaceutical container nest. The chamber has a rotat...