US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Aug. 19 for "System and methods for automatic dilution of whole blood to increase plasma clarity" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,573, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"System and methods for automatic dilution of whole blood to increase plasma clarity" was invented by Matthew J. Schoonover (Chicago) and Jeffrey R. Maher (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are provided for centrifugally separating plasma from whole blood in which whole blood is introduced into a flow circuit having a blood access device connected to a first tubing for drawing whole blood from a blood source and for flowing whole blood to a centrifugal separation chamber; a volume of saline is added to the whole blood as it flow...