ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,497, issued on July 29, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Filtration system for cell removal systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Clinton Boyd Pepper (Bend, Ore.) and David Andrew Hansen (Bend, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtration system can include a loading member configured to receive a plurality of filtration members which can be sequentially moved from a non-active position in which a respective one of the plurality of filtration members is not in fluid communication with a sample flow path of the cell removal system, to an active position in which the respective filtration m...