US Patent Issued to Instrumentation Laboratory on March 24 for "Acoustic separation of a test sample" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,902, issued on March 24, was assigned to Instrumentation Laboratory Co. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Acoustic separation of a test sample" was invented by Shankar Balasubramanian (Westford, Mass.), Nam Phan (Chelmsford, Mass.), Lara Adib (Chelmsford, Mass.), Yu Wang (Westford, Mass.) and Nicholas Vanderslice (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a detector configured to detect a value that is based on a hematocrit of a test sample containing plasma and red blood cells, a fluidic channel configured to hold the test sample, and an acoustic transducer configured to apply acoustic waves to the fluidic chan...