ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,874, issued on July 8, was assigned to Smylio Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Saliva collection and testing system" was invented by Renjith Menon (Campbell, Calif.), Loc Phan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nichole Garcia (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a saliva sampling device configured to be orally worn by a patient. The saliva sampling device is a polymer retainer or aligner. A saliva analysis engine is used to correlate one or more analytes of one or more saliva samples with one or more health attributes. A health monitoring engine updates a health profile of the patient based on the correlated health attrib...