US Patent Issued to BD KIESTRA on Sept. 30 for "Disposable device for venting a sealed container and aliquoting therefrom" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,617, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BD KIESTRA B.V. (Drachten, Netherlands).

"Disposable device for venting a sealed container and aliquoting therefrom" was invented by Brent Ronald Pohl (Timonium, Md.), Franciscus Hermannus Feijen (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Robert Edward Armstrong (Hunt Valley, Md.) and Ammon David Lentz (York, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port disposable device that can both vent a sealed culture vessel and draw a sample therefrom into a collection vessel. The multi-port disposable device has a first port configured to receive the top portion of a culture vessel and attach thereto. The multi-por...