ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,048, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Blood collection apparatus" was invented by Kei Takenaka (Tokyo), Shigenori Togashi (Tokyo), Seiichi Boku (Tokyo), Takashi Irie (Tokyo) and Taku Sakazume (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a blood collection apparatus with which blood can be stably collected from a finger tip of any subject while ensuring safety and ease. This blood collection apparatus is provided with: a puncture site holding mechanism for holding a puncture site; a compression mechanism for performing an operation of compressing and releasing the puncture site when blood is co...