US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Jan. 20 for "Rapid breathalyzer diagnostic device for the presence of SARS-CoV-2" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,492, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Rapid breathalyzer diagnostic device for the presence of SARS-CoV-2" was invented by Edward P. DeMauro (Hamilton, N.J.), German Drazer (Skillman, N.J.), Hao Lin (Montgomery, N.J.) and Mehdi Javanmard (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated method for capturing and detecting a target analyte in a sample comprising an aerosol include a capture device, to capture a sample comprising an aerosol including a target analyte. The capture device includes an input to receive the sample, an output to rel...