ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,409, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Blood donation collection system" was invented by Kathleen Mickles (Woodridge, Ill.) and Dale Meixelsperger (Gurnee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood donation collection method includes transmitting a request for data from a donor record to a remote server computer over a network interface circuit and receiving the data from the donor record from the remote server computer. The data comprises an indication of a blood component collected at a previous donor collection. The method includes providing display data indicating an amount of the blood compon...