Patent ID: 11967064
Assignee: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for rapid detection and analysis of biological and environmental analytes, comprising:
preparing one or more colorimetric assays in a microwell plate;
causing an image capture device on a portable computing and communications device to create a digital image of the microwell plate;
transmit the digital image of the microwell plate to a digital image analyzing computer, said digital image analyzing computer having a processor executing computer instructions configured to compute a pixel intensity in each well containing a colorimetric assay and an analyte concentration in each well containing a colorimetric assay based on said pixel intensity; and
receiving at said portable computing and communications device from said digital image analyzing computer an electronic alert of a disease condition or presence of a toxin upon a determination at said processor that an analyte concentration in at least one of said colorimetric assays exceeds a predetermined threshold level of a molecule of interest;
wherein computing a pixel intensity in each well containing a colorimetric assay and an analyte concentration in each well containing a colorimetric assay based on said pixel intensity further comprises generating at said processor a standard pixel intensity indicative of the predetermined threshold level of a molecule of interest, and comparing a computed pixel intensity of each colorimetric assay in each well to said standard pixel intensity.