US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sept. 9 for "Measurement of hydrogen sulfide during breath testing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,127, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Measurement of hydrogen sulfide during breath testing" was invented by Mark Pimentel (Los Angeles), Kapil Gupta (Los Angeles), Ali Rezaie (West Hollywood, Calif.) and Nipaporn Pichetshote (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of detecting levels hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to diagnose H2S positive disease or conditions. Examples of H2S positive diseases and conditions include small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, diarrhea, fatigue, bowel urgency and abdominal pain. The H2S level can guide treatments for subjects who hav...