ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,920, issued on March 11, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for transmission and detection of free radicals" was invented by J. Leon Shohet (Madison, Wis.), Michael R. Sussman (Cross Plains, Wis.), Faraz A. Choudhury (Madison, Wis.), Benjamin B. Minkoff (Madison, Wis.), Grzegorz Sabat (Middleton, Wis.) and Joshua M. Blatz (Monona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing the interaction of free radicals with various materials and the use of known interactions to isolate free radical generation from free radical i...