US Patent Issued to Epitope Diagnostics, Epitope Biotechnology on Feb. 17 for "Automated system for quantitative collection and extraction of a fecal sample" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,198, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Epitope Diagnostics Inc. (San Diego) and Epitope Biotechnology Co. Ltd (Jiaxing, China).

"Automated system for quantitative collection and extraction of a fecal sample" was invented by Ping Gao (San Diego), Qun Gao (Jiaxing, China) and Dongfeng Wang (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated systems and methods for the quantitative collection and extraction of a fecal sample, the system including: a primary loading module configured to receive a plurality of primary stool specimen containers, and a secondary loading module configured to receive a plurality of secondary extraction ...