US Patent Issued to Fremonta on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for applying aggregating sampling to food items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,474, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fremonta Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for applying aggregating sampling to food items" was invented by Eric Child Wilhelmsen (Milpitas, Calif.), Florence Q. Wu (Milpitas, Calif.), Yongqing Huang (Newark, Calif.) and Jason Thomas Hastings (Hayward, 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 or more sampling locations, and sampling a production lot of produce or other food items such as meat usi...