ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,878, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amniotics AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Apparatus for filtering amniotic fluid" was invented by Jan Talts (Staffanstorp, Sweden) and Niels-Bjarne Woods (Furulund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for filtering amniotic fluid containing particulate matter and amniotic cells is disclosed, comprising a filter for filtering the particulate matter from the amniotic fluid, a chamber enclosing the filter, wherein the chamber comprises a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and an inlet connector arranged to form a sealing connection between the fluid inlet and an amniotic fluid sample source, where...