US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Sept. 8 for "Additive mixing for blood sample collection" (New Jersey, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,801, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Additive mixing for blood sample collection" was invented by Alex F. Fricke (Cedar Knolls, N.J.), Anthony V. Torris (Mercer Island, Wash.), Kishore K. Bokka Srinivasa Rao (Ridgewood, N.J.), Scott Wentzell (Suffern, N.Y.) and Vlad Yakhnich (Park Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample collection container configured to be removably mounted to a blood collection device includes: a housing having a flow channel extending through the housing having an inlet and an outlet and a container body removably connected to the housing. The contai...