Patent ID: 9260697
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: A61M,C12M,C12N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus useful for collection of human biological material and post-collection processing of collected material, the apparatus being orientable in a collection orientation, as oriented in the collection orientation the apparatus comprising: a filter; a container having an internal containment volume, the internal containment volume comprising: an inlet port in fluid communication with the tissue retention volume and configured for introducing human biological material comprising adipose directly into the tissue retention volume; a suction port in fluid communication with the filtrate volume and providing access to the filtrate volume for suctioning from the filtrate volume components passing through the filter from the tissue retention volume to the filtrate volume; a mixing device disposed at least in part within the tissue retention volume for mixing contents within the tissue retention volume, the mixing device comprising a rotatable shaft extending from outside of the internal containment volume to inside of the internal containment volume; and a lumen extending through the shaft and having a proximal end located outside of the internal containment volume and a distal end located within the internal containment volume, thereby providing access from outside of the internal containment volume to inside of the internal containment volume.