ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,560, issued on July 22, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System for collecting liquid samples" was invented by David Diaz (Bennington, Neb.), Jonathan Hein (Elkhorn, Neb.), Kyle W. Uhlmeyer (Omaha, Neb.), Daniel R. Wiederin (Omaha, Neb.), Tyler Yost (Omaha, Neb.) and Kevin Wiederin (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to determine whether a sample transmitted through a transfer line from a remote sampling system contains a suitable sample to analyze by an analysis system. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a sample receiving line configured to receive...