US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on July 8 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sample capture and extraction" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,670, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sample capture and extraction" was invented by Adam Dewey McBrady (Dallas), Moin Shafai (Plano, Texas), Oscar Ponte Rivas (Mexico City), Aoife Celoria (Quinlan, Texas), Philip C. Foster (Murphy, Texas), Dustin Michael Brandt (Tempe, Ariz.), Giorgio Carlo Isella (Torrance, Calif.), Jose Guadalupe Sanchez De La Rosa (Naucalpan, Mexico), Emir Rahislic (Des Plaines, Ill.), Amanda Esther Sall Childers (Des Plaines, Ill.), Gennady Germaine (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Thomas Merritt Haggerty (Collingswood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tra...