US 11,852,567 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. 17/446,686.
Application 17/446,686 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 2022/0136934 A1, May 5, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01N 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 1/2205 (2013.01) [G01N 2001/2223 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating an aerosol collection device comprising:
removing a cap component of the aerosol collection device from an upper plunger component of the aerosol collection device, wherein the upper plunger component is housed within a vessel component having at least one vertical lock ridge element and at least one vertical stop ridge element disposed on an inner lateral surface of the vessel component;
connecting a sample transfer adapter to a flow channel defined by the upper plunger component and a tube component; and
causing a sample to flow into the aerosol collection device through the flow channel and contact a buffer solution within the aerosol collection device.