ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,458, issued on June 10, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Method of producing sample collection apparatus" was invented by Hajime Fukumaru (Kyoto, Japan) and Suguru Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a sample collection apparatus, including steps of: attaching a holding member to a support of a nozzle unit such that, in slits provided with N edges (Nless than=3), a collection range w of a sample tube is included within a range from a lower-limit position at a distance w/2 from a 1st edge toward an initial-position, to an upper-limit position at a distance w/2 from an Nth edge away fr...