US Patent Issued to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA, INAIL-ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO on Sept. 2 for "Method for the detection of nanoproducts" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,218, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy) and INAIL-ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO (Rome).

"Method for the detection of nanoproducts" was invented by Athanasia Athanasiou (Genoa, Italy), Fabio Boccuni (Monte Porzio Catone, Italy), Sergio Iavicoli (Monte Porzio Catone, Italy) and Paraskevi Papadopoulou (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting silica nanoparticles and/or graphene nanoplatelets in samples of various kinds, which may be solid surfaces, air or gas streams, or liquids s...