US Patent Issued to Pneumatic Scale on June 3 for "Centrifuge system for separating cells in suspension" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,710, issued on June 3, was assigned to Pneumatic Scale Corp. (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

"Centrifuge system for separating cells in suspension" was invented by Stephen B. Kessler (Princeton, Mass.) and T. David Marro (Magnolia, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for separating cell suspension material into centrate and concentrate, includes a single use structure (178, 240, 250, 370, 414) releasably positioned in a cavity in a solid wall rotatable centrifuge bowl (172). The bowl and portions of single use structure rotate about an axis (174, 428). A stationary inlet feed tube (184, 430), a centrate discharge tube (212, 436)...