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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2017
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
Steven J. M. Butala, Provo, UT (US);
Dan Allen, Springville, UT (US);
Andrew Nguyen, Provo, UT (US);
Conrad Rosenbrock, Provo, UT (US);
Ben Swenson, Lehi, UT (US);
Daniel Hendricks, Provo, UT (US);
Travis Niederhauser, Mapleton, UT (US);
John Christensen, Bluffdale, UT (US);
Joshua Larsen, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Joe Fox, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
Steven J. M. Butala, Provo, UT (US);
Dan Allen, Springville, UT (US);
Andrew Nguyen, Provo, UT (US);
Conrad Rosenbrock, Provo, UT (US);
Ben Swenson, Lehi, UT (US);
Daniel Hendricks, Provo, UT (US);
Travis Niederhauser, Mapleton, UT (US);
John Christensen, Bluffdale, UT (US);
Joshua Larsen, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Joe Fox, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Other;
Abstract
We disclose a toilet system which analyzes solid waste to detect tags which were associated with pharmaceutical or nutritional products and excreted in the solid waste of a user. The toilet system may include a receptacle for receiving solid waste, a liquid dispenser for providing a liquid to assist in dispersing the solid waste, a solid waste dispersing system which may mix the solid waste with the liquid thereby homogenizing the solid waste, and an electromagnetic signature detector which may analyze the tags in the solid waste. The electromagnetic signature detector may include a selective binding surface which may bind tags present in the solid waste and which may be connected to a transducer which senses the presence of bound tags.