ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,362, issued on July 15.

"Method and system for acquiring, tracking, and testing sample data" was invented by Scott D. Reed (Wheeling, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asset data is collected from one or more managers and stored in a known asset database. The known asset database enables tracking and maintenance of assets associated with each manager. One or more technicians may also be associated with assets in the known asset database. A technician is provided with access to a sample collection application on a computing system, which allows the technician to provide data associated with physical or other types of samples. Sampl...