ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,494, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).
"Diluent preparation module" was invented by Craig R Veiner (Miami).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain types of automated medical analysis equipment are used to analyze blood or other fluids. The equipment may thus use various diluents or reagents that allow the blood or other fluids to be run through the analysis equipment for analysis and data collection. Disclosed is a diluent preparation module that combines purified water and reagent concentrate for use by this equipment. Also disclosed is a diluent preparation unit that combines more than one diluen...