US Patent Issued to Magnolia Medical Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Sterile bodily-fluid collection device and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,816, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sterile bodily-fluid collection device and methods" was invented by Gregory J. Bullington (Seattle), Richard G. Patton (Seattle) and Shan E. Gaw (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a pre-sample reservoir, a diversion mechanism, and a flow metering mechanism. The diversion mechanism has an inlet port couplable to a lumen-defining device to receive bodily-fluids from a patient, a first outlet port fluidically couplable to the pre-sample reservoir, and a second outlet port fluidically couplable to a sample reservoir. The dive...