US Patent Issued to Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio, GL Biocontrol on April 22 for "Surface bio-contamination assay kit" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,377, issued on April 22, was assigned to Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio (Rome) and GL Biocontrol SARL (Clapiers, France).

"Surface bio-contamination assay kit" was invented by Vincenzo Guarnieri (Turin, Italy), Ilaria Locantore (Turin, Italy), Cesare Lobascio (Turin, Italy), Clement Faye (Clapiers, France) and Laurent Garrelly (Clapiers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface bio-contamination assay kit (1) comprising a disposable swab cartridge (2) comprising a swab (29); a sampler (3) designed to removably receive the cartridge (2) and to wipe the cartridge swab (29) on a surface to be collect a sampled, ...