US Patent Issued to StemCell Technologies Canada on Aug. 12 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for the automated culture of cells" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,001, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to StemCell Technologies Canada Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for the automated culture of cells" was invented by Emanuel Nazareth (Vancouver, Canada), Eric Jervis (Vancouver, Canada), Martin O'Keane (Vancouver, Canada) and Carrick Faris (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the automated culture of cells and apparatus and methods for dissociating one or more colonies in a culture of cells are described. The automated systems include at least an imaging module, a pipette module, a handling module, and optionally a stage module. Coordi...