ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,092, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stichting IMEC Nederland (Wageningen, Netherlands).
"Ingestible device for sampling material and method for using the same" was invented by Rogier Schoeman (Wageningen, Netherlands) and Klaus Mathwig (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ingestible device for sampling material at least one time is provided. The ingestible device includes a first chamber that is enlargeable in volume and that includes an inlet, and that can be filled with the material to be sampled, a second chamber that is diminishable in volume and that includes an outlet, and a reversible actuating mechani...