US Patent Issued to Fremonta on July 29 for "Devices, systems and methods for microbial sampling of frozen products" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,443, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fremonta Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Devices, systems and methods for microbial sampling of frozen products" was invented by Eric Wilhelmsen (Fremont, Calif.), Yongqing Huang (Fremont, Calif.), Florence Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Garth Hoffmann (Fremont, Calif.) and Wei Wu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sampling probe devices and methods for sampling frozen or solid meltable products are provided herein. Such devices can include a sampling probe with heating element and a cover fabricated at least partly from a microbial sampling medium that fits over the probe and heating element so...