ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,436, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cerus Corp. (Concord, Calif.).

"System and methods for implementing a biological fluid treatment device" was invented by Daniel Church (Danville, Calif.), Lloyd Ison (Livermore, Calif.) and Seyhan Akkoyun (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic devices for treating a biological fluid and methods of operating the devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a plurality of non-safety critical components, a first controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of non-safety critical components, a plurality of safety critical components, and a seco...