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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
May. 09, 2012
Raymond Anthony Martino, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sung Hyun Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul A. Rhodes, Woodside, CA (US);
Raymond Anthony Martino, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sung Hyun Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul A. Rhodes, Woodside, CA (US);
ISENSE MEDICAL CORP., West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Abstract
An upper respiratory bacterial infection is detected from exhaled mammalian breath by using a colorimetric sensor array having a spectral response characteristic that changes when exposed to bacteria-produced analytes in the exhaled breath. A flow regulating system directs a leading portion of the exhaled breath into gaseous communication with the array to change its spectral response characteristic, and discharges a trailing portion of the exhaled breath exteriorly of the apparatus. A spectral analysis system analyzes the spectral response characteristic changed solely by the leading portion of the exhaled breath, and detects the upper respiratory bacterial infection when the bacteria-produced analytes are present therein. Reactivity of the analytes with the array is increased by advance oxidizing and/or heating the analytes.