ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,324, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell preservation or transportation instrument and cell transportation method" was invented by Izumi Ogura (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Keiji Shigesada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Shinji Mima (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Yuki Imakura (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Shun Goto (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Nao Yamazaki (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a transportation instrument and a transportation method that enable transportation by using a cell culture container as it is. Further, an object of the present inv...