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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2015
Applicants:
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Baxter Healthcare SA, Glattpark (Opfikon), CH;
Inventors:
Wei-Youh Kuu, Libertyville, IL (US);
Mark Doty, Grayslake, IL (US);
William S. Hurst, Burlington, WA (US);
Christine L. Rebbeck, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Assignees:
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., Deerfield, IL (US);
BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA, Glattpark (Opfikon), CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F26B 5/06 (2006.01); G01N 21/68 (2006.01); F25C 1/00 (2006.01); F25D 17/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F26B 5/06 (2013.01); F25C 1/00 (2013.01); F25D 17/02 (2013.01); G01N 21/68 (2013.01);
Abstract
This application discloses devices, articles, and methods useful for producing lyophilized cakes of solutes. The devices and articles provide for a method of freezing liquid solutions of the solute by the top and the bottom of the solution simultaneously and at approximately the same rate. The as frozen solution can then provide a lyophilized cake of the solutes with large and uniform pores.