US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 26 for "Demarcation template for hazardous contaminant testing" (Utah, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,088, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Demarcation template for hazardous contaminant testing" was invented by Matthew Oshinski (Oak Ridge, N.J.) and Austin Jason Mckinnon (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to demarcation templates for demarcating a test area on a test surface and for providing visual guidance to a user to precisely and accurately swab the test surface in order to determine the presence and/or concentration of an analyte of interest on the test surface. In one aspect, the analyte of interest is a hazardous contaminant. Som...