ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,513, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Repligen Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Vessel, system, and associated method for product concentration" was invented by Steven V. Cates (Lakewood, Calif.), Rudolf Pavlik (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Bao Le (Redondo Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vessel configured to facilitate concentration of a product in a solution. The vessel may include outlet ports to deliver the solution to a processing system (such as a filtration system), and inlet ports. The inlet ports may be at progressively lower levels for return of fluid thereto reduced in volume as a result of filtration thereof. A s...