Patent ID: 11957465
Assignee: REDDROP DX, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A system for accelerated ergonomic collection of capillary blood, the system comprising:
a transfer module; and
a blood collection module that includes:
a sealing surface at a subject-facing surface of a base of the blood collection module configured to stably couple to a collection site in skin on a body part of a subject, wherein an opening in the sealing surface forms a perimeter through which tips of a plurality of linearly-arranged lancet strips pass, the opening being fluidically coupled to a non-microfluidic blood flow channel;
a slide latch configured to cause the plurality of linearly-arranged lancet strips to momentarily puncture and retract to produce a plurality of rows of blood extraction slits in the collection site in the skin of the subject, wherein the plurality of linearly-arranged lancet strips comprises two rows of 3 to 6 linearly-arranged lancets per row configured with distal ends of the two rows of linearly-arranged lancet strips being spaced closer together than proximal ends of the two rows of linearly-arranged lancet strips that are configured to orient a longest dimension of the blood extraction slits of the two rows of blood extraction slits in the skin to be aligned with the two rows of blood extraction slits to guide blood from individual blood extraction slits to flow along corresponding rows of blood extraction slits and then to flow together in a distal direction toward the transfer module; and
an angled transfer port that extends in a distal direction from the blood collection module and is angled away from the skin of the subject at an acute angle of between 10 and 45 degrees relative to the sealing surface and is configured to couple an outer wall of the transfer module to also be angled away from the skin of the subject at the acute angle of between 10 and 45 degrees relative to the sealing surface when the transfer module is coupled to the blood collection module,
wherein, in response to the plurality of rows of blood extraction slits being produced, the blood is guided to flow from the opening through the non-microfluidic blood flow channel to the transfer module via the angled transfer port,
wherein the transfer module comprises a prepackaged additive selected to mix with the blood to facilitate performance of one or more predetermined laboratory tests.