US Patent Issued to Satio on Oct. 21 for "Dermal patch for collecting a physiological sample" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,810, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Satio Inc. (Boston).

"Dermal patch for collecting a physiological sample" was invented by Namal Nawana (Weston, Mass.) and Ziad Tarik Al-Shamsie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dermal patch for collecting a physiological sample includes a housing with a collection chamber, a sample channel and a pin within a receptacle of the housing. The sample channel is configured to direct a physiological sample drawn from a subject to the collection chamber. The pin is removably positioned within the receptacle and is configured to move from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The pi...