US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Fluidic network for positive displacement aseptic sampling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,122, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Fluidic network for positive displacement aseptic sampling" was invented by Sylvain Gilles Cormier (Mendon, Mass.) and Michael O. Fogwill (Uxbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a fluidic network and method for aseptic sampling from a process source. The fluidic network includes a valve that isolates the valve port that receives the process sample from all other valve ports except when the process sample flows through the valve. The fluidic network further includes a sample treatment module having a filter element and a sample...