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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2016
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
Conrad Rosenbrock, Provo, UT (US);
Ben Swenson, Lehi, UT (US);
Dan Hendricks, Provo, UT (US);
Terrece Pearman, Draper, UT (US);
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
Conrad Rosenbrock, Provo, UT (US);
Ben Swenson, Lehi, UT (US);
Dan Hendricks, Provo, UT (US);
Terrece Pearman, Draper, UT (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a method of detecting a drug marker in urine a urine sample using a toilet. The drug markers are fluorophores each of which emits a unique fluorescence spectra. Accordingly, the method does not detect the drug but rather, the drug marker. A user who has consumed the drug with its unique drug marker then urinates into the toilet and a urine sample is captured. The toilet includes a mechanism for fluid handling which diverts urine into a fluorescence spectrometer. The fluorescence spectrometer screens the urine for drug markers based on their unique fluorescent spectra. The toilet may include a controller which quantifies the drug marker. The fluorescent spectrometer may detect multiple drug markers in a single urine sample. This method may be used to confirm drug compliance, test for illicit drugs, identify amounts of drugs consumed, and other uses described herein.