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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2016
Applicant:
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US);
Inventors:
Zhenyu Lu, Columbia, SC (US);
Brianna Cassidy, Columbia, SC (US);
Katherine Witherspoon, Columbia, SC (US);
Stephanie Dejong, Ripon, CA (US);
Raymond G. Belliveau, III, Columbia, SC (US);
Michael Myrick, Columbia, SC (US);
Stephen L. Morgan, Columbia, SC (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/30 (2006.01); G01N 33/49 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/30 (2013.01); G01N 33/49 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12);
Abstract
A stain-barrier is described along with methods of its application to a fabric. The stain barrier reduces variability between samples of different dilution or fabric type so that limits of stain detection can be assigned more accurately and precisely and stain detection techniques can be transparently compared.