ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,459, issued on July 21, was assigned to Spiracheck Ltd. (Middlesex, Great Britain).

"Volatile organic compound capturing device" was invented by Jay Eum (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, devices, and methods for capturing compounds, such as volatile organic compounds, in gaseous samples onto capturing tubes, such as thermal desorption tubes, for subsequent analysis, such as disease diagnosis (e.g., cancer diagnosis)."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2021, under Application No. 18/010,923.

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