Patent ID: 9012193
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: B01L,C12M

Abstract:
1. A micro-patterned plate for patterning of biological materials of interest at specific sites on a plate, the materials of interest comprising cells, tissues, DNA or living organisms, comprising a body, a plurality of elevated sites attached to and extending up from a surface of the body which come into contact with a liquid solution upon submersion of the plate in the liquid solution, wherein the nature of the attachment of the plurality of elevated sites to the surface of the body is releasable leaving the structure of the body of the plate intact when one or more of the plurality of elevated sites is released from the surface of the body, wherein a releasec one or more of the plurality of elevated sited capable of being a carrier for biological material of interest adhered thereto, and one or more troughs extending contiguously across the body in a crisscrossing configuration separating each of the plurality of elevated sites from one another and in which a contiguous gas bubble is formed upon submersion in the liquid solution isolating each of the plurality of elevated sites from one another, wherein the one or more troughs comprise surfaces which are prevented by the contiguous gas bubble from coming into contact with the liquid solution upon submersion of the plate in the liquid solution.