ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,313, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to OUTSENSE DIAGNOSTICS LTD. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Bodily emission analysis" was invented by Ishay Attar (M.P. Hof Carmel, Israel) and Yaara Kapp-Barnea (Nirit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described for use with a bodily emission of a subject that is disposed within a toilet bowl. One or more light sensors are configured to receive light from the toilet bowl, while the bodily emission is disposed within the toilet bowl. A computer processor detects a set of three or more spectral components that have a characteristic relationship with each other in a light spectr...