US Patent Issued to Truvian Sciences on Oct. 28 for "Methods and compositions for reversing platelet clumping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,218, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Truvian Sciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for reversing platelet clumping" was invented by Florence Y. Lee (San Diego), Renee L Higgins (Santee, Calif.), Jeffrey A. Hawkins (San Marcos, Calif.) and Dena C. Marrinucci (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and related compositions and kits for dissolution of platelet clumps formed in collected blood samples. The present methods, compositions and kits are useful for improving blood sample quality and blood assay accuracy in a lab setting, especially in preventing misdiagnosis such as pseudothrombo...