ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,791, issued on April 21, was assigned to DRSignal BioTechnology Co. Ltd. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Gravitational liquid-splitting device, cell passaging device with the same, and cell passaging method" was invented by Hsin-Wu Mi (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Huang Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hsin-Fei Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chia-I Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravitational liquid-splitting device has a funnel, a dispensing valve, a liquid-splitting part, and a stirring assembly. The funnel has an inner space and a bottom opening connected to each other. The dispensing valve is mounted to the funnel an...