US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for implementing different versions of a blood separation procedure" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,319, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for implementing different versions of a blood separation procedure" was invented by Samantha M. Planas (Wauconda, Ill.), Kyungyoon Min (Kildeer, Ill.), Amit J. Patel (Algonquin, Ill.) and Thomas Gniadek (Deerfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood separation device has a controller configured to execute a first and a second version of a blood separation procedure. Information regarding a blood source is analyzed to determine whether to implement the first version of the procedure or the second version. This may include an analy...