Patents Assigned to Avitar Incorporated
  • Sample collection device with extraction sleeve
    Patent number: 6200275
    Abstract: A specimen collecting device is disclosed. The device has an elongated foam member that is circumscribed by a hollow tubular member along a portion of its longitudinal axis. The hollow tubular member has a cross sectional area less than the uncompressed cross sectional area of the foam member so that the foam member is compressed along the circumscribed portion. Around the hollow tubular member is slidably mounted a flexible sleeve member having a first end that fits snugly around the hollow tubular member and a second end with an enlarged diameter that can surround the uncompressed foam member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Avitar Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward J. Cesarczyk
  • Sample collection method with extraction sleeve
    Patent number: 5922614
    Abstract: A method for collecting a sample of fluid specimen from a patient for diagnostic testing, providing a specimen collecting device comprising a hollow tubular member, an elongated foam member that is circumscribed by a hollow tubular member along a portion of its longitudinal axis. The hollow tubular member has a cross sectional area less than the uncompressed cross sectional area of the foam member so that the foam member is compressed along the circumscribed portion. Around the hollow tubular member is slidably mounted a flexible sleeve member having a first end that fits snugly around the hollow tubular member and a second end with an enlarged diameter that can surround the uncompressed foam member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Avitar Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward J. Cesarczyk