ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,253, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Therakos Development Ltd. (Dublin).
"Processing blood" was invented by David Peritt (Skokie, Ill.), Philip Wong (Cremorne, Australia), Janet Lesley MacPherson (Leichhardt, Australia), Kevin Henrichsen (Shamong, N.J.), Geoffrey Phillip Symonds (Rose Bay, Australia) and Susan Pond (Kirribilli, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods (300), devices, and systems of processing blood are described. The method (300) comprises the steps of: obtaining (312) blood from a patient coupled to a single blood processing device to form a closed loop between the patient and the blood processing device;...