Patent ID: 8808978

Claim:
A method for washing platelets comprising: (a) introducing anticoagulant into a platelet product container containing platelet product, the platelet product containing platelets suspended within a supernatant; (b) drawing anticoagulated platelet product from the platelet product container; (c) introducing the anticoagulated platelet product into a centrifuge bowl and centrifuging the anticoagulated platelet product to separate the platelets from the supernatant; (d) introducing a wash solution into the centrifuge bowl, the wash solution displacing the supernatant from the bowl into a waste container; (e) introducing platelet additive solution into the centrifuge bowl, the platelet additive solution displacing the wash solution from the centrifuge bowl into the waste container; (f) jogging the centrifuge bowl by accelerating and decelerating the centrifuge bowl; (g) repeating step (f) at least once to resuspend the platelets in the platelet additive solution.