ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,683, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).
"Systems and methods for cellular separation" was invented by Hannah McIntyre (Naples, Fla.), Christopher Bare (Naples, Fla.), Melissa Tucker (Estero, Fla.) and Andrea Matuska (Naples, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein provide systems and methods for maintaining sterile conditions inside of a biological-fluid container during an entire process of delivery, incubation, centrifugation, and extraction of fluid. The methods and systems also provide systems and methods for localized extraction of a portion of a biological fluid."
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