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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
May. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Lawrence Rose, State College, PA (US);
Aleksander Boleslaw Pilarski, deceased, late of State College, PA (US);
Jeffrey Mark Hammer, Wayzata, MN (US);
Michael Todd Peterson, Lakeville, MN (US);
Philip Otto Readio, Savage, MN (US);
Assignee:
The B.F. Goodrich Company, Akron, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73599 ; 7317026 ;
Abstract
A contaminant detection system includes a transmitter for transmitting a guided wave through the skin at particular resonances, wherein each resonance point utilized will have propagation characteristics sensitive to a condition of interest. A contaminant may then be classified by transmitting several resonances and then carrying out appropriate feature extraction and pattern recognition techniques utilizing a host processor.