US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on March 31 for "Apparatus for enriching the concentration of trace components in air flow" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,361, issued on March 31, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Apparatus for enriching the concentration of trace components in air flow" was invented by Gabriel Isaacman-Vanwertz (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and method for enriching a concentration of components of interest in an air flow are described. The system includes an apparatus for enriching a concentration of components of interest in an air flow. The apparatus includes a chamber and a tube having a tube wall made of a selectively permeable material positioned within the chamber. A ...