ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,641, issued on April 21, was assigned to Haemonetics Corp. (Boston).

"Apparatus and method to determine stroke subtype" was invented by Eli Cohen (Skokie, Ill.), Gabriel Raviv (Glenview, Ill.) and Irene Navickas (Hauula, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided to determine stroke subtype by hemostasis measurement at point of care or first response. A testing apparatus and methods may provide first test to determine an ischemic or hemorrhagic indication and a second test to provide a therapeutic influence before classifying a stroke substype."

The patent was filed on Nov. 13, 2015, under Application ...