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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2003
Applicant:
Klaus W. Berndt, Timonium, MD (US);
Inventor:
Klaus W. Berndt, Timonium, MD (US);
Assignee:
Becton Dickinson & Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An acoustic detector based on rupture event scanning ('REVS') with a detection setup allowing the monitoring of REVS signals near the driving frequency and with optimized impedance matching between the REVS crystal and the front-end of the detection circuitry for use in detecting the presence of particles such as bacteria, viruses, or other particulates in liquid samples with extreme high sensitivity.