Patents by Inventor Gordon F. Kingsley
Gordon F. Kingsley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6641552Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Haemonetics CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 6379322Abstract: A system for collecting and processing blood from a donor (70), wherein the system may be compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and be able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. Thus, the separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a variable-volume rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1998Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 6102883Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1997Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 6007509Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Transfusion Technologies Corp.Inventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 5853382Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1996Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 5779660Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1996Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 5728060Abstract: A system for collecting and processing blood from a donor (70), wherein the system may be compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and be able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. Thus, the separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately alter the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a variable-volume rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1996Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 5651766Abstract: A system compact enough to be located entirely beside the donor's chair, and able to process the blood while the donor is still resting in the chair after having donated the blood. The separated blood components (plasma and red blood cells) may be stored in their individual optimum environments immediately after the whole blood is drawn, and the blood does not need to be transported back to a separation laboratory for processing. The system includes a needle (72) (or other cannula-like device) for insertion into a vein of the donor and drawing whole blood therethrough, a rotor (2a) for holding the blood after it is drawn, and a motor (50) for spinning the rotor so as to cause the blood to separate into components, for example, plasma and red blood cells. The system also provides for a container for collecting a separated component.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: July 29, 1997Assignee: Transfusion Technologies CorporationInventors: Gordon F. Kingsley, Thomas D. Headley, Lise N. Halpern
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Patent number: 4474568Abstract: A multipurpose blood processing bag is described for a system in which anticoagulant and whole blood are mixed outside of the prior art anticoagulated whole blood bag in order to minimize collection lesion. In this system, whole blood and anticoagulant from a multipurpose container are mixed at the phlebotomy needle and the anticoagulated whole blood passed to the anticoagulated whole blood bag. The anticoagulated whole blood may then be separated in a pheresis procedure into components such as plasma or platelets and the separated components stored in the (now empty) multipurpose container.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1982Date of Patent: October 2, 1984Assignee: Haemonetics CorporationInventors: Donald W. Schoendorfer, Gordon F. Kingsley