ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,998, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lonza Cologne GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method and device for uniformly treating adherent cells" was invented by Thomas Koblizek (Goettingen, Germany), Andreas Heinze (Cologne, Germany), Timo Gleissner (Euskirchen, Germany), Herbert Mueller-Hartmann (Cologne, Germany) and Andreas Wirth (Teufen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for subjecting adherent cells to at least one electric field, in which the electric field is generated by applying a voltage to at least two active electrodes 63, wherein at least three electrodes 63, 64 are provided, and wherein at least...