US Patent Issued to Instrumentation Laboratory on Feb. 10 for "Determining a platelet aggregation value" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,980, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Instrumentation Laboratory Co. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Determining a platelet aggregation value" was invented by Cory Lee McCluskey (Encinitas, Calif.) and Robert S. Hillman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a chamber to hold a mixture that includes a whole blood sample from a patient, a light source to illuminate the mixture in the chamber, a detector to detect light from the light source transmitted through the mixture in the chamber, and one or more processing devices to determine, based on the light detected by the detector, a platelet aggregation value of the ...