ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,092, issued on July 14, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for assessing medical conditions such as inflammation, autoimmunity, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and treatments thereof" was invented by Xue-Jun Kong (Lexington, Mass.), Kenneth Kwong (Boston) and Suk-Tak Chan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for evaluating a subject, including: a processor in communication with a carbon monoxide (CO) detector, and a memory in communication with the processor having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive, from the...