ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,738, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
"Continuous flow centrifugation chambers" 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: "Fluid separation chambers are provided with a central hub, with generally annular low- and high-G walls extending about the hub to define therebetween a separation channel. A plurality of radial walls extend from the hub to the channel to define an inlet passage and two outlet passages. The low-G wall may include an air drain taper and/or a decreased radius adjace...