US Patent Issued to George Mason University on Sept. 1 for "Collapsible fluid collection system for point-of-care diagnostics" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,607, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.).

"Collapsible fluid collection system for point-of-care diagnostics" was invented by Sameen Yusuf (Fairfax, Va.), Marissa A. Howard (Fairfax, Va.), Sara Sharif (Fairfax, Va.), Kelsey Mitchell (Fairfax, Va.), Amanda Haymond Still (Fairfax, Va.), Ngoc Bao Vuong (Fairfax, Va.), Alessandra Luchini Kunkel (Fairfax, Va.) and Lance A. Liotta (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible sample collection device with a novel, collapsible 3D capture open affinity net dispersed throughout the volume of the container, said net with tethered affinity moie...