ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,375, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huacells Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"Automated cell culturing" was invented by Jie Jing (Milton, Mass.), Kenneth A. Collins (Nashua, N.H.), Fang Yuan (Framingham, Mass.), Zhonghua Zhang (Winchester, Mass.), Lawrence St. George (Sudbury, Mass.), Jeffery J. Driscoll (Framingham, Mass.), Weijia Tan (Malden, Mass.), Hao Cai (Brookline, Mass.), Dongping Lin (Las Vegas) and Jian Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated cell culture system includes a cell culture reactor including a housing; a fluidic circuit for cell culture media, the fluidic circuit disposed in an interior of the hous...