ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,765, issued on March 17, was assigned to APPLIED MONITORING Ltd. (Sedgefield, Great Britain).

"Device for non-invasive substance detection" was invented by Robert Connell (Tyne and Wear, Great Britain) and Alex Mason (Tyne and Wear, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for transdermally detecting the concentration of one or more substances in a subject's bloodstream. The device includes a signal generation module arranged to generate microwave frequency signals at one or more discrete frequencies. The device also includes a sensor module comprising at least one microwave resonance sensor arranged to mak...