ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,301, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sinfonia Technology Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cell culture device" was invented by Daichi Horii (Tokyo), Yasumichi Mieno (Tokyo) and Haruki Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell culture device includes: a base; a rotary table attached to the base; a container holding member attached to the rotary table and configured to hold a cell culture container; and a drive mechanism configured to rotatably drive the rotary table around a first axis and the container holding member around a second axis, wherein a liquid port to which a liquid tube is connected is arranged on an outer peripheral surf...