US Patent Issued to Magnolia Medical Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Fluid diversion mechanism for bodily-fluid sampling" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,300, issued on Nov. 25, 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: "A device includes a pre-sample reservoir, an actuator mechanism, and a diverter. The pre-sample reservoir can be fluidically coupled to a delivery member to receive and isolate a predetermined volume of bodily-fluid withdrawn from a patient. The actuator mechanism is operably coupled to the pre-sample reservoir such that, when actuate...