ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,948, issued on April 14, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan), MEGAKARYON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and SATAKE MultiMix Corp. (Toda, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for producing platelet and method for determining operating condition of apparatus for producing platelet" was invented by Koji Eto (Kyoto, Japan), Sou Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Yukitaka Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Tomohiro Shigemori (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshikazu Kato (Toda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of production and apparatuses for production for stably producing healthy and functional platelets, and methods for determining operating conditions of an appar...