MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042508 A) filed by Nitte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, on April 2, for 'system and method for real-time tube selection and order-of-draw validation during venous blood collection.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Asem Ali Ashraf; and Dr. Mridula Madiyal.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is a system (100) and method for real-time tube selection and order-of-draw validation during venous blood collection. The system (100) comprises a user interface (102) integrated into a user device (104), a barcode scanning device (106), a communication network (108), and a processing unit (110) communicatively coupled thereto. The processing unit (110) comprises an input module (112), a preprocessing module (114), a requisition interpretation module (116), an order-of-draw validation module (118), an additive compatibility module (120), a volume verification module (122), an inversion validation module (124), a workflow gating module (126), a real-time alert module (128), a data logging module (130), and an output module (132). A database (134) is communicatively coupled to the processing unit (110) and stores validation rules, test-to-tube mappings, additive specifications, and historical validation records. The system (100) actively enforces pre-analytical blood collection compliance and generates comprehensive validation reports for quality assurance."
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