US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on Sept. 22 for "Nasal specimen collection system" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,770, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Nasal specimen collection system" was invented by Thang Nguyen (Omaha, Neb.), Michael Wadman (Omaha, Neb.) and Wesley Zeger (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collecting a nasal specimen includes a device body with a nozzle at a distal end of the device body. The nozzle is configured to interface with a nasal cavity. The apparatus further includes an irrigation path and a collection path within the device body. The collection path may be separate from the irrigation path. The irrigation path is configur...