US 11,786,155 B2
Devices and methods for bodily fluid collection and distribution
Gregory J. Bullington, Seattle, WA (US); Jeff Allison, Lake Oswego, OR (US); Brian Shay, Seattle, WA (US); Joshua D. Maruska, Seattle, WA (US); John Andrew Johnson, Bainbridge Island, WA (US); and Shan E. Gaw, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/785,170.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/802,999, filed on Feb. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0253524 A1, Aug. 13, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/15 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/150251 (2013.01) [A61B 10/007 (2013.01); A61B 10/0048 (2013.01); A61B 10/0051 (2013.01); A61B 2010/0077 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a housing defining a fluid reservoir and including a port in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, the port including a puncture member;
an inlet adapter removably coupleable to the housing, the inlet adapter having a pierceable portion configured to be pierced by the puncture member to place placing the port in fluid communication with a bodily fluid source when the inlet adapter is coupled to the housing;
an actuator including a plunger disposed within and defining at least a part of the fluid reservoir, a portion of the actuator configured to be engaged by a user to move the plunger within the housing from a first position in which the fluid reservoir has a first volume, to a second position in which the fluid reservoir has a second volume greater than the first volume, the increase in volume operable to draw bodily fluid into the fluid reservoir via the inlet adapter, the actuator modulating a rate of motion of the plunger below a threshold as the plunger is moved from the first position to the second position; and
a volume indicator configured to transition from a first state to a second state in response to a predetermined volume of bodily fluid being disposed in the fluid reservoir,
the inlet adapter configured to be removed from the housing after the predetermined volume of bodily fluid is transferred into the fluid reservoir to allow transfer of the predetermined volume to a sample bottle external to the housing via the port.