US Patent Issued to MGI Tech on Sept. 29 for "Mask, sample collecting tube, and pathogen collecting apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,358, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MGI Tech Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Mask, sample collecting tube, and pathogen collecting apparatus" was invented by Jian Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jianghu Wu (Shenzhen, China), Qing Xie (Shenzhen, China), Haoyan Kuang (Shenzhen, China), Chunyu Geng (Shenzhen, China) and Shuo Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a mask, a sample collecting tube, and a pathogen collecting apparatus. The mask includes a mask body, a breather valve fixed on the mask body, and a sampling structure including a pathogen adsorption portion. The pathogen adsorption portion is disposed on...