US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Dec. 9 for "Systems, devices, and methods for low-cost respirator evaluation" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,979, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for low-cost respirator evaluation" was invented by Quinton Burke (Fallston, Md.), Kevin Aroom (Silver Spring, Md.) and Martha Wang (Fulton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the evaluation of respirator materials includes an aerosolized particle source configured to selectively provide aerosolized particles, a mixing chamber including a drying apparatus, a vacuum source configured to control airflow, an airtight respirator chamber for evaluating respirator materials, a processor, and a memory. ...