US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on Oct. 21 for "Blood separation by microfluidic acoustic focusing" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,256, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc..

"Blood separation by microfluidic acoustic focusing" was invented by Jason O. Fiering (Boston), Shivshanker Sundaram (Tampa, Fla.) and Andrew Meuller (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cleansing blood are disclosed herein. The methods include acoustically separating undesirable particles bound to capture particles from formed elements of whole blood. After introducing the capture particles to whole blood containing undesirable particles, the whole blood and capture particles are flowed through a microfluidic separa...