US Patent Issued to Fremonta, United States by the Secretary of Agriculture on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for applying aggregating sampling" (Nebraska, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,103, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Fremonta Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) and United States by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for applying aggregating sampling" was invented by Terrance Arthur (Hastings, Neb.), Tommy Wheeler (Clay Center, Neb.), Eric Child Wilhelmsen (Milpitas, Calif.), Florence Q. Wu (Milpitas, Calif.), Yongqing Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Wu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for microbial sampling of foods. For example, a method may include providing at least one aggregating sampler at one ...