ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,024, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LONZA LTD (Visp, Switzerland).
"Process and system for producing an inoculum" was invented by Brandon John Downey (Visp, Switzerland) and Anthony Quach (Visp, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and system for producing an inoculum for downstream cell production is disclosed. The inoculum is produced in a perfusion bioreactor in which the nutrient media feed is increased as the biomass concentration increases within the bioreactor. A biomass sensor can be used to periodically or continuously monitor biomass concentration. This information can be fed to a controller for automati...