US Patent Issued to The Regents Of The University of California on Sept. 30 for "Method for characterizing and identifying substances" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,411, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Regents Of The University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method for characterizing and identifying substances" was invented by William H. Grover (Riverside, Calif.) and Brittney A. McKenzie (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for of validating the identity of one of more component(s) in a substance including: obtaining a substance; placing the substance in a plenum with a sealed bottom; exposing the substance to a perturbation; digitally recoding the time-dependent changes in the substance after exposing the substance to the perturbation; producing a chronologica...