ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,563, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SEEGENE INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Sample collecting swab tool and method for detection of respiratory pathogen" was invented by Won Sik Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Myung Jun Seo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sample collecting swab tool and a method for detection of respiratory pathogens. The present invention relates to a swab tool in which two positions for gripping the swab tool, that is, two gripping points, are formed so as to make it easy to precisely control the force on the swab tool according to the sample collection site (e...