US Patent Issued to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties on July 8 for "System and method for monitoring the health of dialysis patients" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,695, issued on July 8, was assigned to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"System and method for monitoring the health of dialysis patients" was invented by John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.), Ryan Senger (North Chesterfield, Va.) and Pang Du (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring the health of dialysis patients with Raman spectroscopy measurements of one or more target analytes is described. The methods include irradiating one or more fluids of interest with light to produce one or more spectrum and detecting the spectrum with a detector. The fluids of interest are pr...