US Patent Issued to Research Triangle Institute on Aug. 25 for "Systems, methods, and devices for detecting viral respiratory illness in presymptomatic and asymptomatic infected persons" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,947, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for detecting viral respiratory illness in presymptomatic and asymptomatic infected persons" was invented by Kristin Hedgepath Gilchrist (Rockville, Md.), Meghan Sarah Hegarty-Craver (Durham, N.C.), Dorota Temple (Cary, N.C.) and Robert Furberg (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices of detecting illness in presymptomatic and asymptomatic infected persons using wearable sensor technology. In a first embodiment, a method is implemented on a compu...