US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on April 8 for "Device and method for assessing oxidative potential of ambient particulate matter" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,821, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Device and method for assessing oxidative potential of ambient particulate matter" was invented by Vishal Verma (Savoy, Ill.), Haoran Yu (Urbana, Ill.) and Joseph Puthussery (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are instruments and related methods for measuring oxidative potential (OP) in airborne particulates, particularly PM2.5. The instrument is formed from three main components: a sample injector, a sample incubator and a measurement system. The instrument provides an automatic measure of five OP...