ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,299, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Sampling system with a replaceable cassette assembly and methods of using the same" was invented by David Dixon Newbold (Bend, Ore.), David Andrew Hansen (Bend, Ore.) and Clinton Boyd Pepper (Bend, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling system can include a cassette assembly coupled to a station base that has a plurality of actuators. The cassette assembly can include a cassette base, a cassette top, and an elastomer membrane disposed between the cassette base and cassette top. The cassette base can include a sample inlet, a reservoir for receiv...