US Patent Issued to Mettler-Toledo on May 12 for "Sensor receptacle for using a conventional sensor with a single-use bioreactor while maintaining the sterility of the single-use bioreactor" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,326, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).

"Sensor receptacle for using a conventional sensor with a single-use bioreactor while maintaining the sterility of the single-use bioreactor" was invented by Anne Maier (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Stefan Bardeck (Oberengstringen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioreactor system (1) has a pre-sterilized single-use bioreactor (2) with a reactor wall (20) surrounding an interior chamber (21) that receives a fluid medium (M). A sensor (3) for detecting an analyte in the medium has a sensor housing (30) with an outside thread (31) and a sensor sh...