US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on Feb. 17 for "Red blood cell storage solutions, solution additives, and methods for improving the storage of red blood cells" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,885, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Red blood cell storage solutions, solution additives, and methods for improving the storage of red blood cells" was invented by Richard S. Hoehn (Cincinnati), Peter L. Jernigan (Cincinnati), Alex L. Chang (Cincinnati), Charles C. Caldwell (Cincinnati), Alex B. Lentsch (Cincinnati), Michael J. Edwards (Cincinnati), Erich Gulbins (Cincinnati) and Timothy A. Pritts (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, additive kits and storage compositions for decreasing the deleterious effects of storage on pRBCs, for improving the aging process of stored pRB...