US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation, GENTEX on May 19 for "Detecting compounds in airborne particles using ion exchange" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,586, issued on May 19, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City) and GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Detecting compounds in airborne particles using ion exchange" was invented by Ling Zang (Salt Lake City), Jayc Johnson (Salt Lake City), Paul Slattum (Salt Lake City), Benjamin Ross Bunes (Murray, Utah) and Douglas Wayne Later (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor to detect solid particles of a target salt can include a support substrate, an adsorption layer, a sensing layer oriented between the support substrate and the adsorption layer, and an electrode pair in contact with the sensing lay...