US Patent Issued to University of Tasmania on March 31 for "Liquid collection device" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,845, issued on March 31, was assigned to University of Tasmania (Sandy Bay, Australia).

"Liquid collection device" was invented by David Charles Bailey (Ringwood, Australia), Andrew Gooley (Ringwood, Australia), Florian Germain Lapierre (Sandy Bay, Australia), David John Melville (Ringwood, Australia), Rod Anthony Wiebenga (Cremorne, Australia), Chau Hoang Thanh Nguyen (Cremorne, Australia) and Eugen Meyer (Cremorne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen format liquid collection device includes an elongate generally tubular housing (12, 112, 212, 312) able to be held by hand having an opening at one end, and at least one li...