ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,443, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ibidi GmbH (Grafelfing, Germany) and Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Cell culture carrier" was invented by Zeno Von Guttenberg (Grobenzell, Germany), Anna Fritschen (Darmstadt, Germany) and Andreas Blaser (Troisdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cell culture carrier comprising a first channel and a reservoir, where the first channel and the reservoir are formed in the interior of the cell culture carrier, where the first channel has an inlet opening in an outer side of the cell culture carrier and an outlet opening in the outer side o...