ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,441, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fenwal Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
"Automated splitting of a fluid into uneven volumes" was invented by James Madsen (Chicago) and Kyungyoon Min (Kildeer, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for splitting a fluid includes a source support configured to support a source container and a satellite support configured to support a satellite container fluidly connected to the source container. A weight scale is associated with each of the supports. The system also includes a clamp system and a controller. The controller determines a plurality of possible distributions of the fluid between the s...