LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its automated monitoring of airborne bacterial spores technology. This patent supplements the patent granted in December of 2007 for an apparatus for detecting bacterial spores.