US Patent Issued to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT on April 7 for "Method for sampling a solid object, and a system configured to sample a solid object" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,060, issued on April 7, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for sampling a solid object, and a system configured to sample a solid object" was invented by Jouni Hokkinen (Espoo, Finland), Teemu Karkela (Espoo, Finland) and Anumaija Leskinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for sampling a solid object, the method comprising: providing a solid object; treating the solid object mechanically to remove material, such as pulverized material, from the solid object; and aspirating the removed material thro...