ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,347, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INFINITY INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (SUZHOU) TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Fully automatic inductive sample-collecting bucket capable of storing sample information" was invented by Ying Jiang (Suzhou, China), Yunfei Luo (Suzhou, China) and Xuan Huan (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully automatic inductive sample-collecting bucket capable of storing sample information includes a bucket, and a bucket cover snap-fitted to an upper end of the bucket. A bucket cover cavity is formed in the bucket cover. A locking mechanism, and a control mechanism for driving the locking mec...