ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,037, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CFields LLC (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Sponge assembly" was invented by Anna Marie Dickinson (Virginia Beach, Va.), Luke Weston Leidy (Virginia Beach, Va.), William Andrew Dickinson III (Virginia Beach, Va.), Christopher Michael Sciortino (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Jella An (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sponge assembly including at least some of a pipette having a pipette bulb portion including a hollow interior bulb portion and an elongate pipette body portion including a hollow interior body portion, wherein the pipette extends from the pipette bulb portion to the pipette body por...