US Patent Issued on June 24 for "Butyric acid based aspiration detection and nasogastric or intubation placement verification platforms and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,967, issued on June 24.

"Butyric acid based aspiration detection and nasogastric or intubation placement verification platforms and methods" was invented by Charles Kim Gilmartin (San Anselmo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A butyric acid detection based platform for verifying placement of a patient airway device or a gastric tube comprising at least one of i) a colorimetric based butyric acid detection platform, ii) a bioelectronic sensors based butyric acid detection platform using olfactory receptors, and iii) an IR based butyric acid detection platform. Each platform comprises a housing coupled to the patient airway device...