US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for generating AC volume recommendation for plasma collection" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,189, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for generating AC volume recommendation for plasma collection" was invented by Kyungyoon Min (Kildeer, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a total volume of anticoagulant required for performing a plasmapheresis procedure prior to connecting the donor to the fluid flow circuit, by determining: a total blood volume for a donor, volume of plasma to be collected, a volume of anticoagulant that will be collected together with the plasma and estimating a separation efficiency for the blood separator. Then calculating volu...