US Patent Issued to Fenwal on April 29 for "In vitro diagnostic device with integrated plasma separator" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,758, issued on April 29, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"In vitro diagnostic device with integrated plasma separator" was invented by James Madsen (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lab-on-a-chip cartridge includes a housing defining four separate chambers. A fluid (such as whole blood) flows through one of the chambers and into another one of the chambers, which includes a filter membrane. The filter membrane is rotated to separate a first fluid component (such as plasma) from a second fluid component (such as red blood cells), with the first fluid component passing through the filter membrane and the second ...