US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on June 10 for "Device with a fluid component assessment feature" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,442, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Device with a fluid component assessment feature" was invented by Jennifer Samproni (Braintree, Mass.), Manish Deshpande (Newton, Mass.) and Peter Paulicka (Rottenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a housing, a zone and a means for testing a fluid sample within the housing is disclosed. The housing is constructed of a fluid impermeable material, and defines a first fluid port, and a second fluid port. The first fluid port is configured to connect to a fluid collection device to receive a fluid sample from the f...