ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,093, issued on March 11, was assigned to Velico Medical Inc. (Beverly, Mass.).

"Methods for making spray dried plasma" was invented by Robert R. Andrews (Norfolk, Mass.), Herman E. Snyder (W. Lafayette, Ind.), William J. Merritt (Danvers, Mass.), Kyle D. Erickson (Melrose, Mass.), Evan P. Ordway (Salem, Mass.), Clair Strohl (Emmaus, Pa.) and Russell Barron (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to spray drying plasma methodology that includes pretreating a donated liquid plasma unit, drying the liquid plasma using a spray drying apparatus with the spray drying disposable device that results in a disposa...