ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,846, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Dynamic Nano-DIHM for real-time and in-situ measurement of particles such as viruses" was invented by Parisa A. Ariya (Hampstead, Canada) and Devendra Pal (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time, in situ and automated technology and method for dynamic observation of airborne viruses has been developed, and its application for airborne viruses, using a model virus, MS2 bacteriophage, and SARS-COV-1 RNA, has been demonstrated. There is described a method of performing measurements using a d...