Blood Glucose Reading from Exhaled Breath
July 12, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
A patent must prove to be novel, useful and not obvious, and it has been the usefulness of earlier breath-based diagnostics devices that has been elusive. Does it work? At least one company, Xhale, Inc. (Gainesville FL), has now crossed that threshold with a patent for determining blood glucose levels based on breath analysis. With its patent, Xhale now moves on to the FDA in the commercialization process. MORE