ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,630, issued on May 20.
"Apparatus utilizing electric field for processing of blood to neutralize pathogen cells therein" was invented by William M. Gosney (Lucas, Texas) and Dale B. Nixon (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operational unit for locating and neutralizing pathogen cells in blood includes a time use cassette which has a plurality of thin holding chambers that are filled with blood drawn from a patient. A light source illuminates each of the holding chambers and passes light to an underlying sensor array such that the cells in the blood selectively block the light to produce shadow images of the cells in the sensor...