US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Oct. 14 for "Blood coagulometer with discrete indicator and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,814, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Blood coagulometer with discrete indicator and method" was invented by Brijesh S. Gill (Houston), Kevin R. Aroom (Houston), Charles S. Cox Jr. (Houston) and Tushar Sharma (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining the capacity of a blood sample to clot, the apparatus having a body with a cavity thereon to receive the blood sample, a displacement member movably received on the body and movable from a first position to a second position, a spring element for imparting a retaining force against movem...