US Patent Issued to VOX BIOMEDICAL on March 11 for "Virus sensing in exhaled breath by infrared spectroscopy" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,914, issued on March 11, was assigned to VOX BIOMEDICAL LLC (Bedford, Mass.).

"Virus sensing in exhaled breath by infrared spectroscopy" was invented by Kurt J. Linden (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting cannabinoid, opioid, and virus aerosols in an exhaled breath are provided. An example method for analyzing exhaled breath includes receiving an aerosol breath sample, concentrating the aerosol breath sample onto an infrared-transparent coupon with an electrostatic precipitator, disposing the infrared-transparent coupon in an optical path of a spectroscopy system, detecting one or more infrared spe...