ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,369, issued on May 27, was assigned to GattaCo Inc. (Murrieta, Calif.).
"Automatic plasma separation and metering" was invented by Michael Ryan McNeely (Murrieta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new method is disclosed for extracting plasma from whose blood and metering the amount of plasma to an exact volume for dispensing into a diagnostic test, in a fully automatic and self-contained device. The device can be used in resource limited settings by unskilled users to facilitate sophisticated medical diagnostic testing outside of a hospital, clinic or laboratory."
The patent was filed on June 20, 2023, under Application No. 1...