US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for capturing biological samples from a HEPA filter on an aircraft" (Dutch, American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,475, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for capturing biological samples from a HEPA filter on an aircraft" was invented by Arnau Castillo Gonzalez (Maarssen, Netherlands), Brian St. Rock (Andover, Conn.) and Antonio Martinez Murcia (Elche, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collecting an aircraft cabin representative biological sample from an aircraft HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter including collecting a used HEPA filter after flight, transferring the HEPA filter to a remote location, processing the HEPA filter in order to remove an air sa...