Patents by Inventor Ingrid Hultgren

Ingrid Hultgren has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6607701
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for continuous production of disposable capillary plastic microcuvettes including the steps of providing a first and a second sheet; providing at least one depression having a predetermined depth at a predetermined place in at least one of the sheets; introducing at least one additive or reagent in at least one depression; joining the first sheet and the second sheet for obtaining a body member including at least one cavity, the inner walls of which are defined by the at least one depression and a predetermined area of the opposite sheet and cutting out microcuvettes including at least one cavity and having a predetermined size and configuration from the body member, in such a way that at least one cavity of the microcuvette is communicating with the exterior atmosphere of the microcuvette through a capillary sample inlet opening. The invention also concerns a cuvette prepared according to the new method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Hemocue AB
    Inventors: Lars Jansson, Per Olsson, Norbert Pogorzelski, Ingrid Hultgren