ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,598, issued on June 10, was assigned to NINGBO FIRST HOSPITAL (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GONGDONG MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taizhou, China).

"Multi-sample container disposal module and disposal system" was invented by Shoujun Luo (Ningbo, China), Qinhong Xu (Ningbo, China) and Jianshuai Jiang (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-sample container disposal module is provided with a discharging mechanism comprising a storage box, the storage box being internally provided with a storage space, wherein the storage space is divided into a first storage cavity and a second storage cavity via a partition plate in the st...