ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,329, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nokomis Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"RF rapid diagnostics of infection and contamination" was invented by Walter J Keller III (Bridgeville, Pa.), James Robert Uplinger II (Cranberry Township, Pa.) and Vladimir Makarenko (McDonald, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid virus and pathogen detector using RF and Dielectric Spectroscopy. The targeted virus or pathogen is identified by active illumination by RF energy and analysis of the response RF signal."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2020, under Application No. 16/857,945.

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