ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,696, issued on March 18, was assigned to HERO SCIENTIFIC LTD. (Jerusalem).
"Testing for particulates" was invented by Lazar Fruchter (Efrat, Israel), Arie Oscar Holtz (Jerusalem) and Robert Eric Levitz (Beit Shemesh, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for testing for presence of a biological particulate, the method including collecting, in a tube of an apparatus, biological fluid that potentially contains the biological particulate, the tube having (a) an upstream proximal opening and (b) a distal end that is permanently closed. A plunger of the apparatus is inserted into the tube via the upstream proximal op...