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

Claim 0:
1. A system for analyzing a breath sample, the system comprising:
a sampling chamber;
an inlet coupled to the sampling chamber and configured to receive a breath sample and to provide the breath sample to the sampling chamber;
a molecule collector disposed within the sampling chamber, wherein the molecule collector is configured to adhere volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the breath sample;
a laser configured to ablate VOCs off of the molecule collector;
an analysis device configured to:
identify one or more target VOCs from among the VOCs present in the sampling chamber subsequent to ablation of at least a portion of the VOCs from the molecule collector, at least the portion of the VOCs ablated off of the molecule collector by the laser within the sampling chamber; and
generate an output representative of the one or more target VOCs; and
a vacuum pump configured to introduce a vacuum in the analysis device, concurrent with ablating VOCs off of the molecule collector, the laser and the vacuum pump also configured to, at least concurrent with generating output representative of the one or more target VOCs, clean the system by the laser further heating the sampling chamber and evacuating the sampling chamber and the analysis device using the vacuum.