US Patent Issued to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY on June 10 for "Sample tube for system of observing soil samples" (Kuwaiti Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,384, issued on June 10, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Sample tube 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 sample tube is disclosed 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 soil sample. The sample tube includes a removable section and stationary section joined in sliding relation. The removable section includes a first vertical wall, second vertical wall, a...