ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,703, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEPMAG SYSTEMS S.L. (Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain).
"Biomagnetic separation system with double ring profile" was invented by Lluis Miquel Martinez Garcia (Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biomagnetic separation system comprising an outer ring and an inner ring of permanent magnets, the outer ring being a quadrupole Halbach Cylinder and the inner ring being a Halbach Cylinder with N poles. The diameter of the cylinders and other conditions are chosen so that at the inner radius of the inner ring the magnetic field gradient is greater at the vessel wall than the magne...