US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 23 for "Toilet, testing, and monitoring systems" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,412, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Toilet, testing, and monitoring systems" was invented by Joshua Coon (Middleton, Wis.), Michael Westphall (Fitchburg, Wis.), Ian Miller (Madison, Wis.), Lloyd Smith (Madison, Wis.) and Keaton Mertz (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for monitoring metabolites may include a sample collection system and a urinalysis system of or for a toilet. The sample collection system may be automated to collect sample urine from a toilet or toilet area, transport the sample to the urinalysis system, and/or the sample urine for analys...