US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on April 8 for "Culture additive diffusion mechanism, culture container, culture system, and method of producing cells" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,018, issued on April 8, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Culture additive diffusion mechanism, culture container, culture system, and method of producing cells" was invented by Takeyuki Mogi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A culture additive diffusion mechanism (23) includes an additive retention unit (20) configured to retain an additive (21) used in a culture and a diffusion adjustment unit (22) configured to adjust a diffusion rate of the additive (21) from the inside of the additive retention unit (20) to the outside of the additive retention unit (20)."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2019, un...