US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on Oct. 20 for "Clot retraction assay for quality monitoring of platelet products" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,847, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Fort Detrick, Moldova).

"Clot retraction assay for quality monitoring of platelet products" was invented by Prajeeda M. Nair (San Deigo, Calif.), Andrew P. Cap (Hollywood Part, Texas), Wayne T. Muraoka (San Antonio) and James A. Bynum (La Vernia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an assay and method for evaluating platelet function by measuring clot retraction in a grooved assay well using light transmittance in a low-volume, micro-plate formatted assay. The method takes advantage of the...