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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2015
The United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (Nasa), Washington, DC (US);
Tore Straume, Rocklin, CA (US);
David J. Loftus, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jing Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Cristina E. Davis, Davis, CA (US);
Anup K. Singh, Livermore, CA (US);
Matthew A. Coleman, Livermore, CA (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system that integrates several technologies into a single, portable medical diagnostic apparatus for analyzing a sample body fluid (liquid and/or gas): (1) a mechanism to capture airborne microdroplets and to separate the body fluid into a first fluid component (primarily gas) and a second fluid component (primarily liquid); (2) a volatilizer to convert a portion of the second fluid component into a third fluid component that is primarily a gas; (3) a functionalized nanostructure (NS) array configured to receive, identify, and estimate concentration of at least one constituent in the first and/or third fluid components; (4) a miniaturized differential mobility spectrometer (DMS) module; and (5) a biomarker sensor, to detect volatile and non-volatile molecules in a sample fluid, which may contain one or more components of blood, breath, perspiration, saliva, and urine.