ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,015, issued on July 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Sample removal apparatus and testing system" was invented by Kengo Fushiya (Machida, Japan), Takahiro Hara (Tama, Japan) and Hiroshi Morimoto (Akiruno, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extraction apparatus is a sample removal apparatus that removes a sample collected from a living body. The extraction apparatus includes: a storage container holder that holds a storage container of a sample and is capable of being placed at a sample receiving section where the sample is supplied to the storage container, and a removal section that causes the sample to be disc...