ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,922, issued on Sept. 29.
"Aerosol spirometer and method of using same" was invented by Michael McCawley (Morgantown, W.va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol spirometer and a method of operating an aerosol spirometer. Comparison of lung function data that has been acquired by the aerosol spirometer to a known, idealized exhalation aerosol concentration profile of healthy lung operation may be used to fill in missing lung function data that arises out of resistance-based and compliance-based inhomogeneities in both aerosol penetration and aerosol deposition, where the inhomogeneities may be mathematically correlated to time co...