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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2024
Upside Foods, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Charles Knight Benton, Berkeley, CA (US);
Kesav Timiri Venkat Reddy, Oakland, CA (US);
Upside Foods, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for continuous cultivation and recovery of comestible non-human animal cells in a suspension bioreactor. For example, in one or more implementations, the disclosed methods include cultivating non-human animal cells in suspension culture within a bioreactor vessel, removing a measure of suspension culture from the bioreactor vessel while continuing to provide cell culture media thereto, and recovering a first portion of cultivated non-human animal cells from the removed measure of suspension culture while returning a second portion of cultivated non-human animal cells to the bioreactor vessel. Also, in some implementations, the disclosed systems include at least one sterile output module configured to prevent backflow contamination when recovering cultivated cells and removing spent media during continuous cultivation of non-human animal cells according to the disclosed methods.