US Patent Issued to UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS on June 10 for "Microvolume 3-way stopcock and method for obtaining clean blood specimen" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,664, issued on June 10, was assigned to UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS INC. (Midvale, Utah).

"Microvolume 3-way stopcock and method for obtaining clean blood specimen" was invented by Jonathan K. Miller (Farmington, Utah) and Ben D. Shirley (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microvolume 3-way stopcock for use in a blood sampling system. The stopcock includes a stopcock body having a cylindrical-shaped central chamber, an inlet fluid passage extending from the central chamber to a connector, a blood sample fluid passage extending from the central chamber to a connector, and a waste fluid passage extending from the central chamber t...