Patent ID: 11874270
Assignee: INSPECTIR SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC 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;
exciting and/or heating, by a photodiode array, the molecule collector to release at least a portion of the VOCs from the molecule collector;
concurrent with the photodiode array exciting and/or heating 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 photodiode array exciting and/or heating 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.