ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,873, issued on June 10, was assigned to Haemonetics Corp. (Boston).
"System and method for collecting plasma" was invented by Michael Ragusa (Hingham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collecting plasma includes determining the weight and hematocrit of a donor, and inserting a venous-access device into the donor. The method then withdraws blood from the donor through a draw line connected to a blood component separation device, and introduces anticoagulant into the withdrawn blood. The blood component separation device separates the blood into a plasma component and a second blood component, and the plasma component i...