ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,797, issued on June 2, was assigned to IDENTIGEN Ltd. (Dublin).
"Tissue sampling kit" was invented by Mari Janika Higgins (Dublin) and David Thomas (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling kit for tissue including a reaction chamber and a sampling device configured for mounting in the reaction chamber and providing a reaction volume defined between the base of the reaction chamber and the sampling device. The sampling device has a proximal handling portion and a distal scraping portion comprising a scraping formation configured to collect a sample of tissue when the distal scraping portion is rubbed against a surface of the t...