ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,140, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to I Peace Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Culturing system and method for culturing cells" was invented by Koji Tanabe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kenta Suto (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryoji Hiraide (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a culturing system and method for culturing cells that can culture cells in parallel. The culturing system comprises a cell storage 10 configured to store cells, a plurality of culture apparatuses 20, and a distribution flow path 30 configured to distribute the cells from the cell storage 10 to the culture apparatuses 20, in which each of the c...