US 11,852,568 B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sample capture and extraction
Adam Dewey Mcbrady, Dallas, TX (US); Moin Shafai, Plano, TX (US); Oscar Ponte Rivas, Mexico City (MX); Aoife Celoria, Quinlan, TX (US); Philip C. Foster, Murphy, TX (US); Dustin Michael Brandt, Tempe, AZ (US); Giorgio Carlo Isella, Torrance, CA (US); Jose Guadalupe Sanchez De La Rosa, Naucalpan (MX); Emir Rahislic, Des Plaines, IL (US); Amanda Esther Sall Childers, Des Plaines, IL (US); Gennady Germaine, Cherry Hill, NJ (US); and Thomas Merritt Haggerty, Collingswood, NJ (US)
Assigned to Hand Held Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hand Held Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/446,688.
Application 17/446,688 is a continuation of application No. 17/302,535, filed on May 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/154,476, filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/198,609, filed on Oct. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0136935 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 1/2205 (2013.01) [G01N 2001/2223 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol collection device comprising:
an upper plunger component comprising a central annulus portion and an intermedial annulus portion, wherein the central annulus portion is disposed within the intermedial annulus portion, forming a gap between the central annulus portion and the intermedial annulus portion, wherein a sealing ridge is disposed on an inner surface of the intermedial annulus portion; and
a tube component comprising a vent bluff annulus element, wherein at least a portion of the central annulus portion is positioned within and in contact with the vent bluff annulus element.