US Patent Issued to Cerus on Sept. 8 for "Methods and kits for preparing pathogen-inactivated whole blood" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,186, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cerus Corp. (Concord, Calif.).

"Methods and kits for preparing pathogen-inactivated whole blood" was invented by Harry Cahyadi (Concord, Calif.), Anne North (Concord, Calif.), Melissa Von Goetz (Concord, Calif.) and Anna Erickson (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for preparing pathogen-inactivated whole blood and other pathogen-inactivated blood product compositions, as well as kits and compositions related thereto."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2019, under Application No. 17/277,680.

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