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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2012
Rajen Nirwal Kumar, Troy, MI (US);
Caitlin O'brien Winget, Shelburne, VT (US);
Theresa Kate Fisher, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Hobbes Harrington, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Aliaksandra Kapshai, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Gillian Elizabeth Henker, Glenshaw, PA (US);
Rajen Nirwal Kumar, Troy, MI (US);
Caitlin O'Brien Winget, Shelburne, VT (US);
Theresa Kate Fisher, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Hobbes Harrington, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Aliaksandra Kapshai, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Gillian Elizabeth Henker, Glenshaw, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus including a hollow body, an inlet fluidly coupled to the hollow body, a piston slidably engaged within the hollow body, and a filter arranged within the hollow body between the inlet and piston. The piston and hollow body cooperatively generate a negative pressure, relative to ambient, within the hollow body during piston translation from a first position, proximal the inlet, to a second position, distal the inlet, to draw a fluid, such as blood, through the filter into the hollow body. The piston and hollow body cooperatively generate a positive pressure, relative to ambient, within the hollow body during piston translation from the second position to the first position to egress the filtered fluid from the hollow body.