ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,864, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Envivo Bio Inc (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for collecting gastrointestinal samples" was invented by Tidhar Dari Shalon (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of identifying and/or localizing a pathology comprising sequentially collecting liquid samples from regions of GI tract into a single tube to form a linear array of samples within the single tube, localizing each of the samples to a specific region of the GI tract, and characterizing cells and/or biomolecules in each sample and associating the cells and/or the biomolecules with a pathol...