US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on Sept. 23 for "Passive, proportional measurement of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumption for assessment of metabolic parameters" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,539, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.).

"Passive, proportional measurement of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumption for assessment of metabolic parameters" was invented by Holly McClung (Westborough, Mass.), Reed Wasson Hoyt (Cambridge, Mass.), Lawrence M Candell (Arlington, Mass.), Joseph M. Mahan (Beverly, Mass.), Gary A Shaw (Westford, Mass.), Andrew M Siegel (Arlington, Mass.), Robert Linton Standley (Acton, Mass.) and Kyle Thompson (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradema...