ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,578, issued on July 14, was assigned to VANRX PHARMASYSTEMS INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for vacuum sealing pharmaceuticals into containers" was invented by Marcin Czeslaw Cichy (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention involves a sterilizable vacuum chamber that provides for sealing a pharmaceutical fluid into a plurality of containers, the chamber comprising a vertically movable container nest holder for holding a container nest bearing a plurality of pharmaceutical containers filled with a pharmaceutical fluid, a container closure nest holder for holding a closure nest bearing a pluralit...