US Patent Issued to Hemanext on Dec. 23 for "System for extended storage of red blood cells and methods of use" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,462, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hemanext Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"System for extended storage of red blood cells and methods of use" was invented by Tatsuro Yoshida (West Newton, Mass.) and Paul Vernucci (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methodology for the preservation of red blood cells is described in which red blood cells are oxygen or oxygen and carbon dioxide depleted, treated and are stored in an anaerobic environment to optimize preparation for transfusion. More particularly, a system and method for extended storage of red blood cells from collection to transfusion that optimizes red blood...