Patents by Inventor Franck Merlier

Franck Merlier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Facility for coupling a bioreactor with a device for physicochemically analysing or collecting samples
    Patent number: 9963669
    Abstract: The invention concerns a facility for coupling a bioreactor for culturing bio-organisms, in dynamic mode, with at least one device for physicochemically analyzing a fluid from this bioreactor or collecting samples of this fluid, the device being equipped with a pump and an injector, the bioreactor being equipped with means for supplying culture medium and xenobiotic(s). The facility is remarkable in that the bioreactor is connected to a closed perfusion loop provided with a pump, fitted with a sampling loop and in that the facility comprises: a device for injecting a cleaning product into said sampling loop, two six-way valves, the first valve being connected to the closed perfusion loop, to the sampling loop and to a cleaning loop, the second valve being connected to the cleaning loop and an injection loop that connects the injector to at least one of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: Universite Technologie De Compiegne—UTC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Eric Leclerc, Patrick Paullier, Franck Merlier
  • FACILITY FOR COUPLING A BIOREACTOR WITH A DEVICE FOR PHYSICOCHEMICALLY ANALYSING OR COLLECTING SAMPLES
    Publication number: 20160304826
    Abstract: The invention concerns a facility for coupling a bioreactor for culturing bio-organisms, in dynamic mode, with at least one device for physicochemically analyzing a fluid from this bioreactor or collecting samples of this fluid, the device being equipped with a pump and an injector, the bioreactor being equipped with means for supplying culture medium and xenobiotic(s). The facility is remarkable in that the bioreactor is connected to a closed perfusion loop provided with a pump, fitted with a sampling loop and in that the facility comprises: a device for injecting a cleaning product into said sampling loop, two six-way valves, the first valve being connected to the closed perfusion loop, to the sampling loop and to a cleaning loop, the second valve being connected to the cleaning loop and an injection loop that connects the injector to at least one of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicants: Universite Technologie De Compiegne - UTC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS )
    Inventors: Eric Leclerc, Patrick Paullier, Franck Merlier