US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for converting an apheresis fluid processing circuit to single or double needle mode" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,469, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for converting an apheresis fluid processing circuit to single or double needle mode" was invented by Angela N. Carlson (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Gregory Coultas (Chicago), Lan T. Nguyen (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Kevin Schalte (Crystal Lake, Ill.) and Grover Burkett (Gilberts, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing apheresis procedures, including photopheresis. The systems and methods utilize a disposable fluid circuit that can be converted from a double needle configuration to a single needle configuration and f...