ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,572, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Hangzhou, China).

"Fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and control method therefor" was invented by Guohong Yu (Hangzhou, China), Hang Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Xianglei Xue (Hangzhou, China), Yunxiang Ye (Hangzhou, China), Tian Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Ning Ren (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fully automated filling line for tissue culture flasks and a control method therefor. The line covers stations for material loading, flask loading, flask sorting, flask righting, degreasing, cleanin...