ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,524, issued on March 17, was assigned to CellGro Technologies LLC (Lincoln, Neb.).
"Multi-axial multi-port extruder for cell culture" was invented by Hendrik Jacobus Viljoen (Adams, Neb.) and Jack Thomas Rauch (Lincoln, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multi-axial multi-port extruders for producing multiple alginate tubes simultaneously are described. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a plurality of input ports coupled with an extruder body, the extruder body defining a plurality of fluid channels, wherein each fluid channel is fluidically coupled with a respective one of the plurality o...