US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University on Aug. 5 for "Device for collecting a biological sample" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,837, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"Device for collecting a biological sample" was invented by Sanford Markowitz (Cleveland), Amitabh Chak (Cleveland), Joseph Willis (Cleveland), Jeffrey Silver Taggart (Cleveland), Rebecca Blice (Cleveland), Dean Secrest (Cleveland) and Dennis Siedlak (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for collecting a biological sample in a patient includes a collection portion having a first axial end portion and a second axial end portion. The second axial end portion has a collapsed position and an expanded position. The second axial end portion move...