ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,951, issued on April 14, was assigned to Upside Foods Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for continuous cultivation and recovery of comestible non-human animal cells" was invented by Charles Knight Benton (Berkeley, Calif.) and Kesav Timiri Venkat Reddy (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for continuous cultivation and recovery of comestible non-human animal cells in a suspension bioreactor. For example, in one or more implementations, the disclosed methods include cultivating non-human animal cells in suspension culture within a bioreactor ...