US Patent Issued to Babson Diagnostics on Nov. 25 for "Hand warmer device for capillary blood collection" (Texas, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,299, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Babson Diagnostics Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Hand warmer device for capillary blood collection" was invented by Roy Barr (Austin, Texas), Eric Olson (Austin, Texas), Anagata Vishaka Anand (Austin, Texas), Jacob Benjamin Hochfelder (Cambridge, Mass.), Orhun Ogun Davarci (Pflugerville, Texas), Kristen Michelle Gentry (San Diego), Paige Marie Matthews (Houston) and Craig Sandlin (Cedar Creek, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device that can warm a hand of a user and/or patient to facilitate collection of blood samples (e.g., capillary blood sample collection) is described herein. The device pro...