US Patent Issued to VACUTEST KIMA on March 24 for "Urine preservative composition, device for sampling urine and method for manufacturing a urine sampling device" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,389, issued on March 24, was assigned to VACUTEST KIMA S.R.L. (Arzergrande, Italy).

"Urine preservative composition, device for sampling urine and method for manufacturing a urine sampling device" was invented by Sergio Pignata (Arzergrande, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urine preservative composition in solid form, based on boric acid and D-mannitol is disclosed. The urine preservative composition consists of boric acid from 37.0 to 69.7% by weight, D-Mannitol from 9.6 to 16.2% by weight, sodium bicarbonate and/or sodium carbonate from 18.0 to 25.0% by weight, polyvinylpyrrolidone from 0.1 to 2% by weight and sodium citrat...