US Patent Issued to Fenwal on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for processing whole blood into red blood cell, plasma, and platelet products" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,456, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for processing whole blood into red blood cell, plasma, and platelet products" was invented by Benjamin E. Kusters (Pleasant Prairie, Wis.), Richard I. Brown (Northbrook, Ill.) and Kyungyoon Min (Kildeer, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device includes a pump system, a valve system, a centrifuge, and a controller. A fluid flow circuit is mounted to the device to execute a procedure in which whole blood is processed into a red blood cell product, a plasma product, and a platelet concentrate product. The blood is first separat...