US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on Nov. 18 for "Specimen collection robot system for non face-to-face sampling" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,357, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Specimen collection robot system for non face-to-face sampling" was invented by Keri Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongryul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Suhun Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Yonghwan Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Buchun Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Hong Jun Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specimen collection robot system for performing a specimen collection process having performing specimen collection of a subject with a swab and inserting the swab into a reagent t...