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General Electric announced on Friday that its team of researchers is working on a technology that can detect COVID-19 virus particles on surfaces such as cell phones.
The company said it had received an award to develop small sensors that could detect the presence of COVID-19 on various surfaces, including computer screens and cell phones, to prevent the virus from spreading.
“One of the first lines of defense against any virus is to avoid exposure. It’s easier said than done if you can not see it,” Radislav Potyrailo, a senior scientist at GE Research, said in a statement. “Through our project with the NIH, we are developing a sensor that is small enough to be included in a mobile device that can detect the presence of the COVID-19 virus.”
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The company said the sensors are ‘smaller than a fingertip’, and that they can be programmed to detect the presence of other worrying items without being thrown off the track by unrelated particles.
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GE has previously used its technology to help the US fight the pandemic.
Last year, GE and Ford Motor Co. signed a contract to manufacture 50,000 ventilators under the Defense Production Act, at a time when cases were strong and the hospital’s capacity and resources were thin.
Scientists from the company also mapped individual cells from lung tissue of patients who died of COVID-19 to better understand who infects the virus and affects the body.
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