PositiveID (PSID) Receives an Additional Key Patent for Fieldable Biological Detection

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Aug. 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or "Company") (Nasdaq:PSID), a developer of medical technologies for diabetes management, clinical diagnostics and bio-threat detection, announced today that it has been awarded an additional important international patent "Apparatus and Method of Extracting and Optically Analyzing an Analyte from a Fluid-based Sample," (WO2008/005166) by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The technology represented by this new patent, awarded to the Company's MicroFluidic Systems ("MFS") subsidiary, works in conjunction with the patented technology which the Company announced in mid-July. The technologies provide key steps in accurate biological sample preparation and detection with limited resources, and in the field or clinical environment.