US Patent Issued to University of North Texas, InspectIR Systems on Dec. 16 for "Techniques for rapid detection and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) using breath samples" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,010, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) and InspectIR Systems LLC (Frisco, Texas).

"Techniques for rapid detection and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) using breath samples" was invented by Guido Fridolin Verbeck IV (Lewisville, Texas), John Redmond (Frisco, Texas) and Tim Wing (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary breath analysis system may include a sampling chamber having a molecule collector disposed therein. The molecule detector may be configured such that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in a breath sample introduced to the sampling chambe...