Patent ID: 9557331
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,G01N,H04N

Claim:
1. A system for assessing microbiota of skin comprising: a skin-covering material including an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the skin-covering material substantially conforming in shape to a topography of a skin surface of an individual and including attached thereto a plurality of signal-generating complexes, one or more of the plurality of signal-generating complexes configured to emit one or more signals in response to at least one type of microbe; an image-capture device including circuitry to capture at least one image of the inner surface of the skin-covering material, the image including one or more signals emitted from one or more of the plurality of signal-generating complexes in response to the at least one type of microbe and to transform the captured at least one image into a digital output including information associated with at least one property and a spatial distribution of the imaged one or more signals; and a computing device including a processor, the computing device operably coupled to the image-capture device and including circuitry configured to