US Patent Issued to Terumo BCT on March 3 for "Methods and systems for high-throughput blood component collection" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,668, issued on March 3, was assigned to Terumo BCT Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for high-throughput blood component collection" was invented by Dennis J. Hlavinka (Arvada, Colo.) and Thomas J. Felt (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for separating components from multi-component fluids are provided. A method for collecting a blood component includes drawing whole blood into a centrifuge, spinning the centrifuge to cause centrifugal force to act on the whole blood to separate the whole blood into a least a first blood component and a second blood component that is different from the firs...