ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,957, issued on March 4, was assigned to JP SCIENTIFIC Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Flow-through aerosol capture device" was invented by Janusz Boleslaw Pawliszyn (Waterloo, Canada) and Shakiba Zeinali (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a flow-through aerosol capture device that includes a chamber defining an airflow path, and at least one heat-stable aerogel filter, for example a heat-stable polymer aerogel filter, disposed in the airflow path for capturing aerosol particles when an aerosol-containing gas passes through the filter. The flow-through aerosol capture device may be a needle-trap...