US Patent Issued to Bowling Green State University, Vuronyx Technologies on March 18 for "Drug detection using cobalt thiocyanate and Eosin Y" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,460, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Vuronyx Technologies LLC (Woburn, Mass.).

"Drug detection using cobalt thiocyanate and Eosin Y" was invented by Jeremy Canfield (Bowling Green, Ohio), Jon Sprague (Bowling Green, Ohio), Sandip Agarwal (Woburn, Mass.), Kateland Herault (Woburn, Mass.) and Mark Benjamin Volkin (Walpole, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for testing unknown substances for the presence of an opioid are described."

The patent was filed on March 11, 2021, under Application No. 17/910,926.

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