US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "Cell processing method and cell processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,047, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cell processing method and cell processing apparatus" was invented by Yuki Morita (Kanagawa, Japan), Sachiko Yamauchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuaki Orihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cell processing method including: preparing a cell suspension containing a cell to be processed and a target substance; and introducing the target substance into the cell to be processed by allowing a shear force to act on the cell to be processed, wherein the cell to be processed is a cell, which is selected from a cell group including cells in a proliferation process...