US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Sept. 30 for "Methods for capturing respiratory droplets" (Illinois, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,274, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Methods for capturing respiratory droplets" was invented by Jiaxing Huang (Wilmette, Ill.), Murat Kadir (Broadview Heights, Ohio) and Zhilong Yu (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of capturing respiratory droplets are provided which use coatings comprising a polyelectrolyte polymer and a viscosity modifier. In embodiments, a method of capturing respiratory droplets comprises absorbing respiratory droplets on a surface of a coating, the coating comprising a polyelectrolyte polymer and a viscosity modifier, wherein absorbed droplets...