US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for returning treated mononuclear cells to a blood source" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,317, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for returning treated mononuclear cells to a blood source" was invented by Tanima Jahan Abedin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating mononuclear cells for an extracorporeal photopheresis procedure, driven and adjusted by a microprocessor-based controller, comprising the steps of priming a fluid circuit with priming fluid, directing whole blood derived from a blood source into the fluid circuit, separating the whole blood into a red blood cell component, a mononuclear cell component, and a plasma component, returning...