US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 22 for "Cell sheet cutting assistance system, cell culture system and cell sheet cutting assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,143, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cell sheet cutting assistance system, cell culture system and cell sheet cutting assistance method" was invented by Takayuki Nozaki (Tokyo), Yuki Niimi (Tokyo), Masaharu Kiyama (Tokyo) and Kakuro Hirai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell sheet cutting assistance system comprises a processor for executing a program and a storage device for storing the program. The processor: receives, as input, an evaluation standard of a cell sheet and quality information of a cultured cell sheet; determines whether the quality information satisfies the evaluation standard; and...