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| 8409853 | Continuous process and apparatus for enzymatic treatment of lipids A method and system for the enzymatic treatment of a lipid containing feedstock comprises contacting the feedstock with a processing aid, then causing the feedstock to pass at a substantially constant flow rate through a treatment system comprising a plurality of en... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8187868 | Device for trapping extraneous gas A device for trapping extraneous gas or bubbles is disclosed. The device is defined as having a gas collection area in a tapered neck portion such that when used as a cell culturing apparatus, extraneous gas or bubbles are trapped and isolated from the cell growth a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8114664 | Scalable wall bioreactor for culture of plant and animal tissues A flexible wall bioreactor is described that uses a small droplet size mist unit, a lower rate ambient air flow rate, and a flexible wall culture chamber to provide an environment that allows for the growth of dense root matrix, shoot cultures, and 2 and 3 dimension... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8058057 | Cell culture apparatus and method A cell culture apparatus includes a housing, a bag and an inflatable bladder. The bag is disposed in the housing and has an interior surface defining a chamber for culturing cells. The bladder is disposed in the housing, external to the bag, and is sufficiently infl... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8043848 | Biological reaction method and bioreactor In a bioreactor, a culture solution derived from a cultivation tank is separated into bacteria cells and filtrate by a bacteria cell filter. The filtrate is introduced from the bacteria cell filter into a micro-nano bubble generation tank where micro-nano-bubbles ar... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7935523 | Apparatus for temporal immersion culture of cells The present invention provides an apparatus for temporal immersion cell culture comprising: A first container for holding culture media; A second container for holding the culturing cells; At least, one tube that connects a port in the first container to a port in t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7820431 | Device for trapping extraneous gas A device for trapping extraneous gas or bubbles is disclosed. The device is defined as having a gas collection area in a tapered neck portion such that when used as a cell culturing apparatus, extraneous gas or bubbles are trapped and isolated from the cell growth a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7790444 | Bioreactor for studying the effects of imposed stimuli on cellular activity A bioreactor device for studying the effects of physical, chemical, mechanical and electromagnetic stimuli on the cellular activity. In particular, the device uses a sensorized premixing chamber (1), a culture chamber (2) for observing the development ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7745209 | Multilayered cell culture apparatus A multilayered cell culture apparatus for the culturing of cells is disclosed. The cell culture apparatus is defined as an integral structure having a plurality of cell culture chambers in combination with tracheal space(s). The body of the apparatus has imparted th... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7429479 | Inverted orientation for a microplate A method of conducting amplification comprising loading a liquid polynucleotide sample into a well of a microplate and covering the well of the microplate with a cover, such that the cover fluidly seals the liquid polynucleotide sample within the well. The method th... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7374928 | Bio-reactor for the cultivation of micro-organisms and method for the production thereof The invention relates to a bioreactor for cultivating microorganisms, as well as a method for its production. The invention is characterized in that the bioreactor (1) comprises two identically constructed base elements (2,3) that are constructed in tr... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7352889 | Automated storage and retrieval device and method A device and method for the automated storage and retrieval of trays holding subject matter. A computer system is programmed to control a storage gantry to move the trays between a storage rack and an automated machine. In a preferred embodiment, the subject matter ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351576 | Compost tea machine The invention relates to an in home apparatus for simultaneously suspending, aerating, agitating, extracting and entraining a compost water nutrient culture. A beaker contains the compost nutrient water culture. A perforated elastic membrane transversely covers the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7329535 | Apparatus for circulating carrier fluid Provided are an apparatus for circulating a carrier fluid having two or more chambers or sections, an apparatus for amplifying a nucleic acid using the same, and a chip containing the same. The apparatus for circulating a carrier fluid includes two or more chambers ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7311743 | Biofiltration apparatus and method for reducing methyl bromide concentration in a volume of gas A biofiltration apparatus and method for reducing methyl bromide concentration in a volume of a gas are disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing and a substrate component located in the housing. The substrate component includes a population of methyl bromide degr... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7288405 | Devices and methods for pharmacokinetic-based cell culture system Devices, in vitro cell cultures, systems, and methods are provided for microscale cell culture analogous (CCA) device. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7244401 | Apparatus for separation of constituents from matrices The present invention provides an apparatus useful for the separation of hazardous and non-hazardous organic and inorganic constituents from various matrices. A method of separating such constituents is also provided. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7198940 | Bioreactor apparatus and cell culturing system A bioreactor apparatus and cell culturing system is provided for the automated cultivation and processing of living cells remotely both on earth and in low gravity which utilizes a generally cylindrical reactor vessel that may be optionally rotated about its cylindr... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7157271 | Biofilter equipped with a stirrer and injector of solid feed and method for removing odor and volatile organic compounds from waste gases using the same The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method removing contaminated gas by a biofilter resolving malodorous substance and volatile organic compounds, included in the waste gas generated from industrial and environmental facilities, into innoxious substa... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7150987 | Organic waste processing method and device therefor An organic waste processing method and device makes a mass disposal and 24 hours continuous processing possible, and can largely cut down facility and processing costs. It uses a number of roughly cut-end inverted cone shaped processing tanks 3, 3A, 3B... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144727 | Interlinked culture chamber for biologicals The bioreactor system of the present invention has two fluid-filled culture compartments in which cells, tissues and other biologicals are cultured. The two culture compartments are in fluid communication with each other and each culture compartment is transversed b... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135332 | Biomass heating system Improved systems, methods, apparatus and compositions for generating, extracting and distributing the renewable heat energy produced by microbial decomposition of organic biomass within a contained and controlled environment. This heat energy is preferably transferr... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7078228 | Cell cultivating flask A stackable flask for the culturing of cells is disclosed. The cell culture chamber is defined by a top plate and a rigid bottom tray of substantially rectangular shape connected by side and end walls, the body of the flask has imparted therein a gas permeable membr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7033823 | Cell-cultivating device The present invention claims and discloses a novel apparatus and method for efficiently cultivating cells with minimal mortality in order to harvest a maximum amount of cellular products generated by the cultivated cells. More particularly, the present invention tea... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6869792 | Method and apparatus for performing multiple processing steps on a sample in a single vessel A method is provided which comprises: performing a plurality of fermentations, each fermentation in a different sample vessel; and performing a further processing step on the plurality of fermented samples where the sample is retained in the same sample vessel as th... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6830922 | System and method for inoculating a biological reactor A system and method are provided for inoculating a biological reactor having a chamber. The chamber is configured to contain influent and biomass to degrade contaminants in the influent. A vessel is configured to receive influent and biomass from the chamber and to ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6794184 | Culturing device and method for culturing cells or tissue components A culturing device having one or more culture containers adapted to receive and to discharge a culture medium or nutrient solution is disclosed. The device has a cell culture insert removably received in each of the one or more containers. The device also has at lea... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6790653 | Biological filter apparatus with multiple filter units Air laden with biodegradable volatile organic compounds is passed sequentially through a first filter bed containing a biologically inert filter media, a second filter bed containing a biologically active filter media, and a third filter bed containing a biologicall... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6753178 | Intermittent immersion vessel apparatus and process for plant propagation A plant micropropagation apparatus (100) and process is provided in which a support platform (110) for vessels (12) containing a liquid growth media are periodically pivoted which brings about an intermittent immersion of the plant tissue/growth... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6720178 | Self-feeding roller bottle A reservoir is provided with a spiroid pump which enables the automatic transfer of fresh medium into a roller bottle culture chamber. The reservoir may be formed from a portion of a culture chamber or may be a separate bottle. ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6709862 | Growing cells in a reservoir formed of a flexible sterile plastic liner A method and apparatus for aseptic biological production of cells and/or microorganisms are provided. The apparatus includes a support housing having an interior chamber, a disposable flexible sterile plastic liner lining the interior chamber and a head plate attach... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6699710 | Tumor tissue microarrays for rapid molecular profiling An array-based technology facilitates rapid correlated gene copy number and expression profiling of very large numbers of human tumors. Hundreds of cylindrical tissue biopsies (diameter 0.6 mm) from morphologically representative regions of individual tum... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6696287 | System for co-culturing bacteria and eukaryotic cells The present invention is directed to an apparatus that can be used for co-culturing bacteria and eukaryotic cells. The apparatus allows the bacteria to be grown under steady state conditions and then perfused over the eukaryotic cells. The invention also ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6686194 | Method and device for selecting accelerated proliferation of living cells in suspension The present invention relates to a method and a device for selecting accelerated proliferation of living cells in suspension. The culture apparatus (2) of the present invention enables cells to proliferate in suspension over unlimited periods of time. Nat... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6680194 | Mercaptan deodorizing for storage tanks A method for deodorizing a storage tank having mercaptan residue disposed therein includes the steps of delivering a cleaning material to the storage tank, and absorbing the mercaptan residue from the walls of the tank into the cleaning material. The clea... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6664095 | Solid state fermentation The present invention provides an improved solid state fermentation device that combines all of the operations of microorganism cultivation (sterilization, inoculation, cultivation, extraction, and post extraction treatment). This solid state fermentation... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6645759 | Apparatus for growing cells in culture under shear stress and/or strain Disclosed is a cell culture device for inducing shear stress and/or strain on cells. The device includes a cell culture membrane and a flow pathway for moving fluid across cells growing on the membrane to apply shear stress on the cells. Another embodimen... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6620614 | Solid-state fermenter and method for solid-state fermentation The invention concerns a solid state fermenter in particular for large volumes as well as a procedure for solid state fermentation. The task of the present invention was the development of a solid state fermenter for large volumes and of a procedure for solid ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6599736 | Configurable microreactor network The configurable microreactor network of the invention comprises a substrate in which a plurality of overpassing channels are arranged. Said channels are optionally interconnectable via connecting channel arrangements. Between said channels, microreactors... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6596521 | Method for manufacturing organic acid by high-efficiency continuous fermentation The present invention provides a method for manufacturing organic acid by high-efficiency fermentation, which comprises the steps of continuous culture of organic acid bacteria and collection of organic acid produced from the culture employing a cell-recy... | 07/22/2003 |
