US Patent Issued to Lonza on Aug. 18 for "Single use bioreactor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,725, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Lonza Ltd (Visp, Switzerland).

"Single use bioreactor" was invented by Colin Mark Jaques (Slough, Great Britain), Mohsan Waseem Khan (Slough, Great Britain), Rita D'Ornelas P. De Barros Costa (Slough, Great Britain), Anthony Beaney (Slough, Great Britain) and David Valentine (Slough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-use bioreactor is provided. The single-use bioreactor may include a bioprocess container, a shell, at least one agitator, at least one sparger, at least one gas filter inlet port for the sparger(s) and headspace overlay, at least one fill port, at least one harv...