US Patent Issued to HORIBA ABX on June 30 for "Device and method for performing a complete blood count and determining a sedimentation rate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,422, issued on June 30, was assigned to HORIBA ABX SAS (Montpelier Cedex, France).

"Device and method for performing a complete blood count and determining a sedimentation rate" was invented by Philippe Piedcoq (Montpellier Cedex, France) and Guilhem Couderc (Montpellier Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for performing a complete blood count and for determining a sedimentation rate including a first group arranged so as to sample a blood sample from a tube and to carry out a complete blood count on the sample and a second group arranged so as to sample a blood sample from a tube and to carry out a sedimentation ra...