US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on July 14 for "Methods to obtain a biological sample representative of a passenger cabin on an aircraft automatically from the collector device" (Spanish, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,919, issued on July 14, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Methods to obtain a biological sample representative of a passenger cabin on an aircraft automatically from the collector device" was invented by Arnau Castillo Gonzalez (Maarssen, Netherlands), Eric Surawski (Hebron, Conn.), Vanessa Gonzalez (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) and Antonio Martinez Murcia (Elche, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring aircraft air including a collector for collecting particulate samples positioned within at least one of an outlet flow path or a recirculation flow path, at least one of an outflow valve posi...