US Patent Issued to JP SCIENTIFIC on Feb. 17 for "Method and instrument for extracting a component from a sample" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,800, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JP SCIENTIFIC Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and instrument for extracting a component from a sample" was invented by Janusz Boleslaw Pawliszyn (Waterloo, Canada), Runshan Jiang (Waterloo, Canada) and Wei Zhou (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-syringe for inserting into a sample matrix. The micro-syringe includes a micro-syringe body having an orifice at an insertion end; and a plunger at least partially coated with a solid-phase micro-extraction (SPME) coating. The plunger is longitudinally movable between an internal position and an extended position. When the syringe...