US Patent Issued on Nov. 11 for "Method of operation utilizing venting for processing of blood to remove pathogen cells therein" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,844, issued on Nov. 11.

"Method of operation utilizing venting for processing of blood to remove 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 apparatus for locating and venting pathogen cells in blood. A cassette 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 produce shadow images of the cells in the sensor array. A processor performs pattern recognition to identify and l...