US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on June 17 for "System and method for closed-loop active sensing and protection against airborne pathogens" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,216, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"System and method for closed-loop active sensing and protection against airborne pathogens" was invented by Naren Vikram Raj Masna (Gainesville, Fla.), Swarup Bhunia (Gainesville, Fla.), Soumyajit Mandal (Gainesville, Fla.), Anamika Bhuniaroy (Gainesville, Fla.) and Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask apparatus that is configured to prevent airborne pathogens from reaching an individual by actively mitigating airborne droplets that have a pathogen. In one example, the mask apparatus...