US Patent Issued to DATAMARS on Feb. 10 for "System for sampling tissue from an ear of an animal" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,048, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DATAMARS SA (Lamone, Switzerland).

"System for sampling tissue from an ear of an animal" was invented by Marco Iori (Taverne, Switzerland), Alessandro Bongiorno (Pregnana Milanese, Italy) and Damien Pachoud (Pregassona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed a System for sampling tissue from an ear of an animal including: -a male component (2) including a detachable sample collecting part (2b), comprising a cavity (2c) for collecting the sample and a cutting edge (2a) at an aperture of the cavity (2c) for cutting the sample from the animal ear; and -a tissue sample container...