US Patent Issued to Onco Filtration on Jan. 13 for "Systems, methods, and devices for removing circulating tumor cells from blood" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,477, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Onco Filtration Inc. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for removing circulating tumor cells from blood" was invented by Stephen S. Keaney (Groton, Mass.), Katherine J. Soojian (Newton, Mass.), Russell W. Bowden (Tyngsboro, Mass.) and Ilan K. Reich (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crossflow filter includes a rigid cylindrical inner wall and a rigid cylindrical outer wall inner with an inelastic filter membrane positioned therebetween defining a retentate channel inside the filter membrane and a permeate channel outside the filter membrane. Further, the filter inc...