US Patent Issued to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY on April 22 for "Soil layer extractor tool for system of observing soil samples" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,969, issued on April 22, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Soil layer extractor tool for system of observing soil samples" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Fatemah M. Safar (Safat, Kuwait) and Shikha A. Ebrahim (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil layer extractor tool used in a system for obtaining a soil sample, dispensing liquid into the soil sample, collecting the resulting leachate, and extracting a soil layer from the obtained soil sample. The soil layer extractor tool includes a base, a holder for a sample tube, and crane for lifting walls of the sample tube to expose a soil sampl...