ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,623, issued on May 27, was assigned to 1866402 Ontario Ltd. (Sudbury, Canada).

"Blood separation and analysis device and methods" was invented by Jeffrey Sutton (Sudbury, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a device and method for separation of blood, including sedimentation of plasma using PVA. The device comprises an inner container enclosed in an outer container, wherein upon alignment of respective openings, allows sample to exit from the inner container into a reaction structure. The reaction structure comprises one or more layers, each with one or more portions each containing concentrations of one or more c...