ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,066, issued on Oct. 21.
"Breakable swab applicator for use with a sampling cloth and a swab kit" was invented by Bernard-Marie Chaffringeon (Pitesti, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a swab applicator (1) for use with a sampling cloth (4) comprising a swab rod (2) and an elongated swab head (3) disposed at an end of the swab rod (2) and the swab rod and head are connected to one another at a breakable section (5) which comprises two connection walls (6) formed integrally with the swab rod (2) and head (3) and a through hole (7) extending transversally on the central longitudinal axis of the brea...