US Patent Issued to HORIBA ABX on May 27 for "Device for spreading or colouring and determining a sedimentation rate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,516, issued on May 27, was assigned to HORIBA ABX SAS (Montpellier, France).

"Device for spreading or colouring and determining a sedimentation rate" was invented by Guilhem Couderc (Montpellier, France), Florent Beauducel (Montpellier, France) and Coralie Thoraval (Montpellier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for spreading or colouring and for determining a sedimentation rate includes a first group arranged so as to sample a blood sample from a tube and to carry out a smear test on the sample and a second group arranged so as to sample a blood sample from a tube and to carry out a sedimentation rate determination. At ...