US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 17 for "Devices, systems, and methods for continuous real time blood culture measurement" (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,020, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for continuous real time blood culture measurement" was invented by James R. Petisce (Westford, Mass.), Adam Steel (Fallston, Md.), Robert E. Armstrong (Hunt Valley, Md.), David J. Turner (York, Pa.) and Richard Ivey (Parkton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for measuring the presence of an analyte of interest in a sample. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are related to culture measurement systems that include a culture vial and a sensor, wherein the ...