ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,137, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Kurin Inc. (San Diego).
"Blood sample optimization device" was invented by Bobby E. Rogers (Park City, Calif.), Gino Kang (Irvine, Calif.) and John Detloff (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration ...