US Patent Issued to Kurin on March 25 for "Blood contaminant sequestration device with one-way air valve and air-permeable blood barrier with closure mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,051, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kurin Inc. (San Diego).

"Blood contaminant sequestration device with one-way air valve and air-permeable blood barrier with closure mechanism" was invented by Bobby E. Rogers (San Diego), Gino Kang (Irvine, Calif.), David Karl Stroup (San Diego), Jonas Dean Cochran (Santee, Calif.), Arthur Deptala (Santee, Calif.), John Detloff (San Diego), Lonnie Pogue (San Diego) and Brian Macowski (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 po...