Tissue processing apparatus and method for processing adipose tissue
AssigneeGID BIO, Inc.
InventorsWilliam W. Cimino, Ramon Llull, Adam J. Katz
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Abstract
A method for processing biological material containing stringy tissue in a container having a tissue collector disposed in a tissue retention volume on one side of an internal filter includes washing biological material contained in the tissue retention volume with wash liquid to the tissue retention volume and allowing the wash liquid and rotating the tissue collector disposed in the tissue retention volume relative to the container in a first direction of rotation about an axis of rotation to sweep the teeth positioned on the tissue collector through the biological material and to collect stringy material on the tissue collector.
Claims9
1-66. (canceled)
An apparatus for processing biological material, the apparatus comprising:
- a container having an internal containment volume, the internal containment volume including a tissue retention volume and a filtrate volume;
- a filter disposed within the internal containment volume with the tissue retention volume on one side of the filter and the filtrate volume on another side of the filter and with the tissue retention volume and with the filtrate volume being in fluid communication through the filter;
- an inlet port in fluid communication with the tissue retention volume and configured to access the tissue retention volume for introducing human biological material into the tissue retention volume;
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- a shaft extending into the tissue retention volume including:
- one or more mixing propellers attached to the shaft and being configured to direct axial flow from the one or more mixing propellers in a direction toward the tissue collector, wherein rotating the one or more mixing propellers disposed in the tissue retention volume relative to the container in a first direction of rotation about an axis of rotation causes a blade of the one or more mixing propellers to scrape at least a portion of the filter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.