ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,453, issued on April 7, was assigned to Naturin Viscofan GmbH (Weinheim, Germany).

"Device for supplying and discharging a medium; culture vessel having such a device and method of cultivating microbiological systems by using such a culture vessel" was invented by Leon Gustafsson (Tuebingen, Germany), Martin Vaegler (Berlin) and Karl-Dietrich Sievert (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for the supply or discharge of medium into or out of a culture vessel comprises a housing on which a first aperture and a plurality of second apertures are arranged. The first aperture and the second apertures have flu...