ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,049, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BECTON DICKINSON AND COMPANY (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Biological fluid separation device" was invented by Kristin Weidemaier (Raleigh, N.C.), Alexander G. Lastovich (Gilbert, Ariz.), Qihua Xu (Cary, N.C.) and Richard Abbott (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood separation device that allows high quality plasma to be generated using a single power source. The device includes a housing with an inlet port adapted to receive the blood sample, a first chamber having a first chamber flow channel in fluid communication with the inlet port, a second chamber having a second chamber flow ...