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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2025
Voc Health Inc., Miami Beach, FL (US);
Richard Postrel, Miami Beach, FL (US);
Ian Hunter, Lincoln, MA (US);
Raymond Catania, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Christine Bralich, Satellite Beach, FL (US);
Kenan Dunton, Cocoa, FL (US);
VOC Health Inc., Miami Beach, FL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for determining the presence of a disease by analyzing a specimen by providing a vial partially containing the specimen and partially containing a headspace above the specimen, injecting an inert gas into the specimen in the vial to cause bubbling of the gas throughout at least a portion of the specimen such that the gas mixes with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the specimen to create a VOC/gas mixture that is released into the headspace, collecting the VOC/gas mixture from the headspace in the vial, supplying the VOC/gas mixture to a chamber within the apparatus, causing the VOC/gas mixture to pass over a sensor array in proximity to the chamber, the sensor array generating an electrical signal as a function of VOCs detected in the VOC/gas mixture, and processing the electrical signal to determine the presence of a disease in the specimen.