US Patent Issued to Magnolia Medical Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Fluid control devices and methods of using the same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,652, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fluid control devices and methods of using the same" was invented by Gregory J. Bullington (Seattle), Jay M. Miazga (Langley, Wash.), Timothy F. Ramsey (Seattle) and Abigail Patterson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for procuring bodily fluid samples with reduced contamination includes a housing having a sequestration chamber, an inlet, and an outlet. A flow controller defines a portion of the sequestration chamber and can transition-in response to a suction force exerted by a fluid collection device fluidically coupled to the ou...