US Patent Issued to IMV TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Straw for the preservation of a predetermined dose of liquid-based substance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,585, issued on July 22, was assigned to IMV TECHNOLOGIES (Saint Ouen sur Iton, France).

"Straw for the preservation of a predetermined dose of liquid-based substance" was invented by Eric Schmitt (Villaines-la-Juhel, France) and Jean-Charles Gorges (Chenay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The straw comprises a tube (11) and a gas-permeable liquid-tight stopper (12), which stopper is disposed in the tube closer to one end (16) of the tube than another end (17) of the tube, which tube and which stopper are configured for the stopper to be able to slide in the tube towards the other end (17), said tube being transparent or translu...