ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,341, issued on March 3, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Fluid diversion mechanism for bodily-fluid sampling" was invented by Gregory J. Bullington (Seattle), Richard G. Patton (Seattle), Jay M. Miazga (Langley, Wash.) and Shan E. Gaw (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing, a fluid reservoir, a flow control mechanism, and an actuator. The housing defines an inner volume and has an inlet port that can be fluidically coupled to a patient and an outlet port. The fluid reservoir is disposed in the inner volume to receive and isolate a first volume of a bodily-fluid. The flow ...