US 11,999,935 B2
Bioreactor for use on a moving platform, bioreactor motion system, and method of performing a bioprocess using a bioreactor motion system
Gregory Bremer, Bohemia, NY (US); Clint Kukla, Bohemia, NY (US); Thorsten Adams, Goettingen (DE); Fabian Tunzini, Tagelswangen (CH); Rachel Delessert, Tagelswangen (CH); and Michael Bates, Gloucestershire (GB)
Assigned to SARTORIUS STEDIM BIOTECH GMBH, (DE)
Filed by Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH, Goettingen (DE)
Filed on Apr. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/857,296.
Claims priority of application No. 19170742 (EP), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0339931 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/36 (2006.01); C12M 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC C12M 27/16 (2013.01) [C12M 23/14 (2013.01); C12M 23/26 (2013.01); C12M 29/10 (2013.01); C12M 41/48 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bioreactor motion system, comprising:
a moving platform;
a bioreactor comprising a bag which defines a three-dimensional geometrical shape including a bottom with respect to a use position on the moving platform and a lower collecting vertex located at the bottom where at least two edges of the three-dimensional geometrical shape meet at an angle, wherein a working volume of the bag is in a range of 50 to 1000 mL; and
a longitudinal port/sensor element arranged along a first one of the at least two edges, the longitudinal port/sensor element including several ports and/or sensors arranged as a single unit,
wherein the longitudinal port/sensor element extends, with respect to its longitudinal direction, along the first one of the at least two edges of the three-dimensional geometrical shape of the bag, the first one of the at least two edges extending from the lower collecting vertex in a direction away from the bottom, such that, when the bioreactor is in the use position on the moving platform, the longitudinal port/sensor element extends away from the moving platform.