US Patent Issued to lowa State University Research Foundation on Sept. 15 for "Personal protective anti-viral face mask" (Iowa, Colorado, Puerto Rico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,378, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to lowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Personal protective anti-viral face mask" was invented by James E. Fay III (Boulder, Colo.), Richard Dennis Vigil (Ames, Iowa), John A. Soderquist (Dorado, Puerto Rico), Andrew S. Heller (Ames, Iowa), Trung Lo Deo (Urbandale, Iowa), Cameron Lynch (Iowa City, Iowa), Danilo R. Manfre (West Des Moines, Iowa) and Beate Schmittmann (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entrainment-based filtering system for use in connection with a facemask or respirator that includes: a filter housing defining an interior volume comprising at l...