US Patent Issued to Magnolia Medical Technologies on March 17 for "Systems and methods for delivering a fluid to a patient with reduced contamination" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,204, issued on March 17, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for delivering a fluid to a patient with reduced contamination" was invented by Gregory J. Bullington (Seattle), Richard G. Patton (Seattle) and Shan E. Gaw (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a cannula assembly, a housing, a fluid reservoir, a flow control mechanism, and an actuator. The housing includes an inlet port removably coupled to the cannula assembly and defines an inner volume. The fluid reservoir is fluidically coupled to the housing and configured to receive and isolate a volume of bodily...