Patents Assigned to Biopico Systems Inc
  • Patent number: 11807842
    Abstract: A system and method for array system for cells, organoids and organs culture and testing. The system includes a disposable chips and systems with actuators, sensors, software/firmware and smart device App. The disposable includes standard well plates, custom well plates, T-flasks, microfluidic chips. The system includes vascular fluidics using gravity-driven flow and pneumatic flow, media, reagents, protein and collagen dispensers in wells or surfaces, manufacturing techniques for multi-layer chips and plates and culture system with gas and media control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Biopico Systems Inc
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Patent number: 10239057
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods that use massively parallel anchored picoreactors as the basis for cell and molecular diagnostics are included in this invention. Different processes such as isolation, processing, amplification and characterization of different fluids, particles, chemical compositions or biospecies are presented. These fluids include biochemical buffers or cellular products including different cells, biochemical compositions, proteins and enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Biopico Systems Inc
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Patent number: 10232371
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods that use cells such as cancer cells, stem cells, blood cells for preprocessing, sorting for various biodiagnostics or therapeutical applications are described. Microfluidics electrical sensing such as measurement of field potential or current and phenomena such as immiscible fluidics, inertial fluidics are used as the basis for cell and molecular processing (e.g., characterizing, sorting, isolation, processing, amplification.) of different particles, chemical compositions or biospecies (e.g., different cells, cells containing different substances, different particles, different biochemical compositions, proteins, enzymes etc.). Specifically, the present invention discloses a number of sorting schemes for stem cells, whole blood and circulating tumor cells, and extracting serum from whole blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Biopico Systems Inc
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Publication number: 20160207044
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods that use massively parallel anchored picoreactors as the basis for cell and molecular diagnostics are included in this invention. Different processes such as isolation, processing, amplification and characterization of different fluids, particles, chemical compositions or biospecies are presented. These fluids include biochemical buffers or cellular products including different cells, biochemical compositions, proteins and enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: BIOPICO SYSTEMS INC
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Publication number: 20160167051
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods that use cells such as cancer cells, stem cells, blood cells for preprocessing, sorting for various biodiagnostics or therapeutical applications are described. Microfluidics electrical sensing such as measurement of field potential or current and phenomena such as immiscible fluidics, inertial fluidics are used as the basis for cell and molecular processing (e.g., characterizing, sorting, isolation, processing, amplification.) of different particles, chemical compositions or biospecies (e.g., different cells, cells containing different substances, different particles, different biochemical compositions, proteins, enzymes etc.). Specifically, the present invention discloses a number of sorting schemes for stem cells, whole blood and circulating tumor cells, and extracting serum from whole blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: BIOPICO SYSTEMS INC
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Patent number: 9149806
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods that use cells such as cancer cells, stem cells, blood cells for preprocessing, sorting for various biodiagnostics or therapeutical applications are described. Microfluidics electrical sensing such as measurement of field potential or current and phenomena such as immiscible fluidics, inertial fluidics are used as the basis for cell and molecular processing (e.g., characterizing, sorting, isolation, processing, amplification) of different particles, chemical compositions or biospecies (e.g., different cells, cells containing different substances, different particles, different biochemical compositions, proteins, enzymes etc.). Specifically this invention discloses a few sorting schemes for stem cells, whole blood and circulating tumor cells and also extracting serum from whole blood. Further medical diagnostics technology utilizing high throughput single cell PCR is described using immiscible fluidics couple with single or multi cells trapping technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Biopico Systems Inc
    Inventor: John Collins
  • Patent number: 9110026
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices and methods of forming cell reactors for performing cell analysis in a microfluidic chip. A microfluidic chip, in one implementation, includes a plurality of trapping sites, each of the plurality of trapping sites having a plurality of micropillars configured to trap one or more cells in an interior space formed by the plurality of micropillars. The plurality of micropillars in each trapping site form a picoreactor for cell and molecular diagnostics, such as characterizing, isolation, processing, and amplification of different cells, cells containing different substances, different particles, different biochemical compositions, proteins, and enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Biopico Systems Inc
    Inventor: John Collins