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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Donald Mead, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Gregory Quist, Escondido, CA (US);
Donald Mead, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Gregory Quist, Escondido, CA (US);
Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA (US);
Abstract
An improvement in a system that includes a group of field units (A) that each identifies unknown microscopic particles by use of a computer that compares an unknown particle interrogation pattern to the interrogation patterns of a set of known species of particles, which facilitates upgrading of the group of field units. Each field unit is connected by a communication link () to a central station (). The central station can send interrogation patterns of a new species of particle to the field unit computers, which store them in a known-species-particle memory () that holds patterns of previously known species of particles. The field unit stores the patterns of unidentified particles in a memory () and notifies the central station when it has detected an invasion of a new species.