US Patent Issued to Terumo BCT on Sept. 8 for "Methods for blood component collection" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,191, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Terumo BCT Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Methods for blood component collection" was invented by Marlene Bainbridge (Lakewood, Colo.) and Scott Butzke (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collecting blood components includes separating a first amount of plasma from whole blood; separating a total amount of collectable platelets from the whole blood as available after the separation of the first amount of plasma; if a total collected amount is less than a maximum as adjusted by real-time data regarding collection following the separation of the total amount of platelets, sepa...