Velico Medical Spray Drying System Patent Application
Summary
Velico Medical, Inc. filed patent application US20260110482A1 on December 21, 2025, published April 23, 2026, covering a spray drying disposable device for plasma processing. The invention includes a spray drying head with a nozzle assembly in fluid communication with a plasma source and pressurized aerosol gas source, a plenum with uniform air pressure, a baffle plate with drying gas jets, and a capture filter for dried plasma particles. Five inventors are named: Robert R. Andrews, Herman E. Snyder, William J. Merritt, Evan P. Ordway, and Kyle D. Erickson.
“The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system.”
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USPTO classification A61M covers devices that introduce or withdraw fluids from the body: infusion pumps, catheters, syringes, inhalers, wound drainage, dialysis equipment, and fluid-handling microfluidics. Every newly published application in A61M lands in this feed, around 205 a month. Applications publish 18 months after filing. Watch this if you compete in infusion therapy or drug delivery, file freedom-to-operate analyses for medical device startups, scout acquisition targets in cardiovascular or respiratory devices, or track hospital R&D arms that are quietly patenting clinical innovations.
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Velico Medical, Inc. has filed patent application US20260110482A1 for a spray drying disposable device designed for plasma processing. The application discloses a system comprising a spray drying head with a nozzle assembly in fluid communication with a plasma source and pressurized aerosol gas source, where pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern to atomize plasma droplets. The device includes a plenum with uniform air pressure, a baffle plate forming the floor with drying gas jets supplying drying gas to the chamber, and a capture filter for collecting dried plasma particles.
Medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies involved in plasma processing or blood product manufacturing should monitor this application to understand potential future competitive landscape developments in spray drying technology for biological materials.
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Spray Drying System
Application US20260110482A1 Kind: A1 Apr 23, 2026
Assignee
Velico Medical, Inc.
Inventors
Robert R. Andrews, Herman E. Snyder, William J. Merritt, Evan P. Ordway, Kyle D. Erickson
Abstract
The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system. The disposable has a spray drying head and a plasma drying chamber. The head has a spray dry nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the plasma source and the pressurized aerosol gas source. The pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern that atomizes plasma droplets in the chamber. The head also includes a plenum has uniform air pressure of the drying gas. A baffle plate forms the floor of the plenum having drying gas jets that supply drying gas to the chamber. The atomized plasma droplets evaporate in the presence of the drying gas emitted from the jets to obtain dried plasma particles and humid air. A capture filter captures the dried plasma particles and allows the humid air to pass. The humid air passes through the gas outlet and the exhaust port.
CPC Classifications
F26B 3/12 A61K 35/16 A61M 1/0272 A61M 2202/0415
Filing Date
2025-12-21
Application No.
19428249
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