Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interconnections of multiple perfused engineered tissue constructs and microbioreactors, multi-microformulators and applications of the same
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Application No.: US16012900Application Date: 2018-06-20
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Publication No.: US10577574B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: John P. Wikswo , Frank E. Block, III , Philip C. Samson
- Applicant: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: US TN Nashville
- Assignee: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US TN Nashville
- Agency: Locke Lord LLP
- Agent Tim Tingkang Xia, Esq.
- Main IPC: C12M3/06
- IPC: C12M3/06 ; C12M3/00 ; A01N1/02 ; C12M1/00 ; C12M1/32 ; C12M1/36 ; F04B43/00 ; B01L3/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to a system of fluidic valves and pumps and associated fluidic channels integratable into a bio-object microfluidics module. The module includes input and output buses; upstream and downstream interconnection bus control valves (CVs) coupled to the input and output buses, respectively. It may include arterial, venous, wash and waste bus lines, each connecting between the upstream and downstream interconnection bus CVs. It may also include an input CV connecting to the arterial bus line, upstream interconnection bus CV, bio-object and inlets, and an output CV connecting to the bio-object, input CV, downstream interconnection bus CV and outlets; and a pump connecting between the input CV and bio-object. The system of fluidic valves and pumps can be arranged to provide MicroFormulator functionality enabling precise mixtures of drugs, chemicals, or biochemicals to be delivered in a time-dependent fashion to biological entities housed in individual wells or chambers.
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