ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,793, issued on May 19, was assigned to Upside Foods Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Methods of using pipe-based bioreactors for producing comestible meat products" was invented by Charles Knight Benton (Berkeley, Calif.) and Konrad Muller-Auffermann (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for preparing cell-based meat products (i.e., comestible meat products). In particular, a pipe-based bioreactor is disclosed having one or more substrates disposed therein. In one or more embodiments, the one or more substrates comprise a plurality of nominally spaced substrat...