ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,672, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).
"Sampling device for biological specimen" was invented by Hans Nauwynck (Lievegem, Belgium), Sebastiaan Theuns (Lier, Belgium) and Sven Arnouts (Bertem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a sampling device for the collection and isolation of a biological specimen from a sample or from a location. The sampling device comprises a swab tip and a support body wherein the support body has a hollow conformation with a first end and a second end and wherein said first end is in fluid connection with the internal surface of th...