US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on May 5 for "Collecting device and a method for collection of airborne particles exhaled by a human being" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,752, issued on May 5, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Collecting device and a method for collection of airborne particles exhaled by a human being" was invented by Ahmed Taher (Heverlee, Belgium), Benjamin Jones (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Sophie Roth (Etterbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collecting device (200) for collecting airborne particles comprises: a first (202) and second layer (220) spaced apart for forming a particle collection chamber (240; 340) therebetween: wherein inlets (210; 310) and outlets (230; 330) are configured for transporting a flow of air (104) into and out of the particle collection c...