US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 18 for "Exposome tracker for environmental health" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,242, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Exposome tracker for environmental health" was invented by Xinyue Zhang (Stanford, Calif.) and Michael P. Snyder (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collector device of environmental exposure is provided. This device may be used to collect and, after technical upgrade, monitor environmental exposure in personal and stationary settings. By coupling with advanced genomic analysis and chemical analysis technologies, the device and its accompanying methodology are capable of detecting environmental ag...