ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,145, issued on July 7, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for blood processing with a remote computing device" was invented by Christopher J. Wegener (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for separating blood components from whole blood. A blood processing device, as part of a blood processing system, has a controller configured to operate the blood processing device based on a plurality of collection protocols. The blood processing device is wirelessly connected to a remote computing device configured to maintain a plurality of collection protocols. At l...