ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,711, issued on April 29.
"Automatic sample collector and extractor" was invented by Aleksandr E Miklos (Baldwin, Md.), Robert Cory Bernhards (Abingdon, Md.), Katherine M. Broadway (Lorton, Va.), Harold S Wylie (North East, Md.) and Phillip M Mach (Aberdeen, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are provided for remote environmental and atmospheric testing that can be deployed without personnel entering a potentially dangerous area. The device can detect and automatically analyze biological and chemical agents and then automatically report if any of these agents are present without the intervention of public safety or military per...