ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,151, issued on June 17.
"Near real-time, hands-off detection of airborne particulate contaminants and bioburden" was invented by Ernst-Ulrich Berndt (Berlin), Lea Ann Ellermeier (Dallas), Ruedger Rubbert (Berlin), Justin Bernstein (Dallas), Jonathan Berndt (Berlin) and Richard William Nesbit (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations, systems and methods are disclosed for continuous, near real-time, hands-off sampling of airborne particulate matter, and qualification and/or quantification of biomolecules in the sample representative for biologic or microbial contamination. The systems and methods may utilize ...