ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,754, issued on March 24, was assigned to GLYCOPROBE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Kit and method for reduction of components in a blood-related medium" was invented by Kurt Nilsson (Trelleborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit for reduction of blood components in a blood-related medium (12) is disclosed, wherein it comprises a gel bead container (1) containing gel beads (2) and provided with an outlet tube (3), a drip chamber (4) provided with an inlet tube (5) and an outlet tube (6), a collection container (10) provided with an inlet tube (11), and a medium container (13) adapted to contain a blood-related medium (12) and provided...