US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan, The Penn State Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Devices, systems, and methods for biological sample collection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,787, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for biological sample collection" was invented by Lauro V. Ojeda (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeffrey M. Sundstrom (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Justin T. Holmer (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alan Cruz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Minghui Huang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Anant Bhamri (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hakan Demirci (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Thomas Gardner (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Russ Miller (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Peter Nguyen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising a ...