Patent ID: 11879890
Assignee: nan
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 11:
12. A method for analyzing a breath sample, the method comprising:
receiving, at a sampling chamber, a breath sample via an inlet coupled to the sampling chamber, wherein the sampling chamber comprises a molecule collector disposed within the sampling chamber, and wherein the molecule collector is configured to adhere volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the breath sample;
ablating, by a laser, VOCs off of the molecule collector;
concurrent with ablating VOCs off of the molecule collector, introducing a vacuum in an analysis device;
identifying, by the analysis device, one or more target VOCs from among the VOCs present in the sampling chamber subsequent to release of at least a portion of the VOCs from the molecule collector, wherein at least the portion of the VOCs are released from the molecule collector by the laser ablating VOCs off of the molecule collector;
generating, by the analysis device, an output representative of the one or more target VOCs, wherein the output representative of the one or more target VOCs comprises information that quantitates a concentration of the one or more target VOCs with respect to a source of the breath sample; and
concurrent with at least generating the output representative of the one or more target VOCs, cleaning the sampling chamber by:
further heating the sampling chamber; and
evacuating the sampling chamber and the analysis device using the vacuum.