ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,846, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WUXI BIOLOGICS IRELAND Ltd. (Dundalk, Ireland).

"Apparatus and a method for continuously harvesting a biological substance produced by a cultured cell" was invented by Weichang Zhou (Shanghai), Hang Zhou (Shanghai) and Mingyue Fang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for continuously harvesting a biological substance produced by a cultured cell. An apparatus and a method for continuously harvesting a biological substance produced by a cultured cell using 2 sets of filters having different pore sizes."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2021, under Application No. 1...