US Patent Issued to Lonza Cologne on March 17 for "Method and device for controlling the filling level in a chamber" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,521, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lonza Cologne GmbH (Germany).

"Method and device for controlling the filling level in a chamber" was invented by Sven Hermsmeier (Bonn, Germany) and Timo Gleissner (Euskirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and device for controlling a filling level of a suspension of cells, cell derivatives, organelles, sub-cellular particles and/or vesicles within at least one chamber of a device for applying an electric field to the suspension. In order to avoid overfilling of the chamber if multiple electroporation cycles are performed and to achieve exact fillin...