Patents by Inventor Robert Hardin

Robert Hardin 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).

  • Patent number: 5843766
    Abstract: A tissue culture chamber is disclosed. The chamber is a casing that provides for growth of three-dimensional tissue, and more specifically for the growth of skin tissue, that can be grown, preserved in frozen form, and shipped to the end user in the same aseptic container. The tissue culture chamber includes a casing comprising a substrate within the casing designed to facilitate three-dimensional tissue growth on the surface of the substrate. The casing includes an inlet and an outlet port which assist the inflow and outflow of media. The casing also includes at least one flow distributor. In one embodiment, the flow distributor is a baffle, which is used to distribute the flow of the media within the chamber to create a continuous, uniform piece of three-dimensional tissue. In a second embodiment, the flow distributor is a combination of deflector plates, distribution channels, and a flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Dawn Orton Applegate, Mark Applegate, Mark Baumgartner, John W. Bennett, John Danssaert, Robert Hardin, Lee Laiterman, Fred Schramm, William R. Tolbert