US Patent Issued to Copan Italia on June 3 for "Device for collecting, transferring, and storing samples of a biological and/or chemical material" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,781, issued on June 3, was assigned to Copan Italia S.p.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Device for collecting, transferring, and storing samples of a biological and/or chemical material" was invented by Giorgio Martello (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for collecting, transferring, and storing samples of a biological and/or chemical material, wherein the device comprises: a support body, developing along a main longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end opposite to each other and connected by an intermediate portion elongate in the main longitudinal direction, a collection portion engaging the first end a...