ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,141, issued on May 27, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Medical sampling device" was invented by Lasse Markworth Johnsen (Birkerod, Denmark), Jonas Hjortlund (Copenhagen S, Denmark) and Martin Refslund Nielsen (Birkerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical sampling device is disclosed for use with a medical device having a suction channel and a suction connector in fluid communication with said suction channel. The sampling device includes a suction inlet for connection to the suction connector, a suction outlet for connection to a vacuum source, a sampling inlet and outlet for connection to a sample contai...