US 12,352,670 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 Nov. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/503,902.
Application 18/503,902 is a continuation of application No. 17/302,535, filed on May 5, 2021, granted, now 11,846,574.
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 2024/0068914 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
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: a housing comprising one or more exterior surfaces and defining a device body;
a filter component disposed within the device body; a first observation orifice defining a line of sight to at least a portion of the filter component, the line of sight extending through at least a portion of the one or more exterior surfaces of the housing, wherein the first observation orifice corresponds to a user viewing window for viewing at least the portion of the filter component;
an extraction cartridge configured to extract a volume of a sample from within the device body, wherein the extraction cartridge comprises an extraction plunger, wherein said extraction plunger is disposed within a cylindrical cartridge body of the extraction cartridge, and wherein said extraction plunger is configured to generate a pressure differential based at least in part on a displacement along a central axis of the cylindrical cartridge body; and a second observation orifice defining a line of sight to the extraction plunger.