US Patent Issued to Magnolia Medical Technologies on March 17 for "Devices and methods for bodily fluid collection and distribution" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,772, issued on March 17, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Devices and methods for bodily fluid collection and distribution" was invented by Gregory J. Bullington (Seattle), Jeff Allison (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Brian Shay (Seattle), Joshua D. Maruska (Seattle), John Andrew Johnson (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Shan E. Gaw (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing that defines a fluid reservoir and includes a port that is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir. An inlet adapter is removably coupleable to the housing. A user can engage an actuator to move a plunger from...