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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Bedingham, Woodbury, MN (US);
Raj Rajagopal, Woodbury, MN (US);
Michael G. Williams, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Assignee:
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 1/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 1/22 ;
Abstract
Thin film culture devices are described that have positioning structures, as well as methods for harvesting cells from colonies on the culture device based on location of colonies on the device relative to the positioning structures. In addition, a computer readable medium encoded with a computer program is described that identifies position of colonies relative to the positioning structures.