ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,699, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).
"Sampling swabs and methods of making the same" was invented by O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Sewickley, Pa.), Yusuf Senturk (Pittsburgh), Toygun Cetinkaya (Pittsburgh), Ant Yucesoy (Pittsburgh), Ali Gurer (Pittsburgh), Lisha White (Pittsburgh) and Ezgi Yalcintas (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to collect a biological sample may generally include an elongated rod having a handle and terminating in a tip; and a core and a plurality of projections extending in a radial direction from a surface of the core. The projections may have curved geometric...