ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,788, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cytiva Sweden AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Modular bio-processing unit and a bio-processing system employing plural units" was invented by Tuomo Valtteri Frigard (Uppsala, Sweden), Robert Magnusson (Uppsala, Sweden), Mats Lundkvist (Uppsala, Sweden), Karl Axel Jakob Liderfelt (Uppsala, Sweden), Helena Nordvarg (Uppsala, Sweden), Andreas Torbjorn Lundin (Uppsala, Sweden) and Peter Arne Reffner (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a modular bio-processing unit comprising: a housing having one or more internal fluid paths, the housing having at least one inlet and at least one ou...