ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,158, issued on July 7, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for drawing a solution" was invented by Arnaud Comment (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rui Chen (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Albert Chen (Toronto), Galen Reed (Dallas) and Jonathan Murray (Dousman, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for drawing a solution using a system is provided. The system includes a filter, a vacuum source, and an actuator. The filter has an input port, a first output port, a second output port, and a flow path defined in part by the input port and the second output port. The vacuum source is in fluid communicat...