ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,490, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to THE KIT COMPANY LLC (New York).

"Systems, devices, and methods for remote collection of biometric data and specimen sample with identity verification of collector" was invented by Philip Fung (San Francisco), Reshma Ebberson (San Francisco) and Lakshminarayan Srinivasan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and kits for collecting and verifying a specimen and/or biological information from a person at a first location to be provided to a second location are provided with documentation of chain of custody in order to verify that the person from whom the specimens and data were ob...