US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for improved collection of interstitial fluid" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,510, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods and systems for improved collection of interstitial fluid" was invented by Pradnya Samant (Atlanta), Chandana Kolluru (Atlanta) and Mark R. Prausnitz (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices of collecting ISF from skin. The methods may include inserting an array of microneedles into a patient's skin to form apertures in the patient's skin, facilitating ISF mobilization within the skin, and collecting ISF that flows from the apertures. The devices may include an array of microneedles extending from a backing structure. The devices ...