US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 8 for "Automatic in vitro diagnostic medical device for intraventricular drainage" (Wisconsin, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,456, issued on July 8, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Automatic in vitro diagnostic medical device for intraventricular drainage" was invented by Joshua Medow (Verona, Wis.), Yue Yang Mo (New Berlin, Wis.), Saketh Challa (Sharon, Mass.), Amber Rollette (Beloit, Wis.), Andrew Budde (Hartland, Wis.) and Ronnie Alramahi (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention operates to significantly reduce over or under drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the brain or spinal cord using an extraventricular drain (EVD) in the brain or lumbar drainage device (LDD) and automated int...