US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Indiana University on Oct. 20 for "Methods and systems for rapid detection of COVID-19" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,830, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Methods and systems for rapid detection of COVID-19" was invented by Mangilal Agarwal (Bloomington, Ind.), Amanda Siegel (Bloomington, Ind.), Mark David Woollam (Bloomington, Ind.) and Paula Andrea Angarita-Rivera (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for diagnosing a subject for a COVID-19 infection state include collecting an alveolar air breath sample from a subject; passing the breath sample into contact with a volatile organic compound (VOC) sensor operable to detect a plurality of VOC biomarkers for a COVID-19 in...