US Patent Issued to Charles River Laboratories International on March 3 for "Detection of infectious agents from environmental air dust" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,683, issued on March 3, was assigned to Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Detection of infectious agents from environmental air dust" was invented by Kenneth S. Henderson (Wilmington, Mass.), John M. Coiro (Princeton, N.J.), Brian M. Bilecki (Medford, N.J.) and Thomas P. Schupsky (Cream Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for collection and analysis of environmental air dust (EAD) within an individually ventilated cage rack (IVR) environment for detecting pathogens. The method includes collection of an EAD sample by a co...