US Patent Issued on March 11 for "Automated airborne particulate matter collection, imaging, identification, and analysis" (Arizona, Colorado, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,907, issued on March 11.

"Automated airborne particulate matter collection, imaging, identification, and analysis" was invented by Richard Lucas (Phoenix), Landon Bunderson (Castle Dale, Utah), Nathan Allan (Mapleton, Utah) and Kevn Lambson (Lewis, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following is an apparatus and a method that enables the automated collection and identification of airborne particulate matter comprising dust, pollen grains, mold spores, bacterial cells, and soot from a gaseous medium comprising the ambient air. Once ambient air is inducted into the apparatus, aerosol particulates are acquired and imaged under a ...