US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on Dec. 2 for "Vacuum-assisted plasma separation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,232, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Vacuum-assisted plasma separation" was invented by Michael S. Wilson (Waltham, Mass.), Jay Li (Franklin, Mass.) and Kenneth P. Galano (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma separation system and process for providing filtered plasma from a blood sample is described. The system may include a blood separation well having a separation membrane for filtering the blood sample. The filtering process may be aided by the use of a negative or positive pressure source attached to the plasma separation system."

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