US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 23 for "Biological fluid collection and stabilization system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,043, issued on June 23, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Biological fluid collection and stabilization system" was invented by Adam Edelhauser (Kinnelon, N.J.) and Bradley M. Wilkinson (North Haledon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological fluid collection system that receives a sample and provides flow-through blood stabilization technology and a precise sample dispensing function for point-of-care and near patient testing applications is disclosed. A biological fluid collection system of the present disclosure is able to effectuate distributed mixing of a sample stabilizer within a blood s...