ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,524, issued on June 3, was assigned to CFD RESEARCH Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Portable platelet apheresis system" was invented by Lap Man Lee III (Madison, Ala.), Ketan Harendrakumar Bhatt (Huntsville, Ala.) and Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable platelet apheresis system can include: a whole blood inlet configured to receive whole blood; an anticoagulant source containing an anticoagulant; a mixer fluidly coupled with the whole blood inlet and anticoagulant source and configured to mix the whole blood and the anticoagulant; a whole blood sorter microfluidic network; a platelet poor ...