Patents
Craig William White, Trent Daniel Ridder, Derek F. Treese, Glenn Leo Price, Benjamin Ver Steeg, Bentley Laaksonen, "Noninvasive determination of intravascular and extravascular hydration using near infrared spectroscopy,"
Filed 2014-06-19: US20140171759A1
Patent Pending
An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of hydration, hydration state, total body water, or water concentration by quantitative spectroscopy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectroscopy, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance, and calibration transfer. The subsystems include an illumination subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem.
Trent Daniel Ridder, Benjamin Ver Steeg, Bentley Laaksonen, "Remote and local transfer of information in noninvasive hydration measurements,"
Filed 2014-06-05: US20140155760A1
Patent Pending
An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of hydration, hydration state, total body water, or water concentration by quantitative spectroscopy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectroscopy, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance, and calibration transfer. The subsystems include an illumination subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem. The system can include a plurality of measurement devices, configured to communicate with each other and with a remote receiver or centralized server. The invention contemplates novel ways to arrange various subsystems and to provide operability and communication among them.
Trent Ridder, Bentley Laaksonen, Ben ver Steeg, "Apparatus and Method for Controlling Operation of Vehicles or Machinery by Intoxicated or Impaired Individuals,"
Filed 2012-03-29: US20120078473A1
Patent Pending
The present invention discloses apparatuses and methods for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy. The embodiments of the present invention include subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue measurements. The subsystems can include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem. Embodiments of the present invention provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely that in systems that include separate analyte and identity determinations. The invention can be used to prevent operation of automobiles or other equipment unless the operator has an acceptable alcohol concentration, and to limit operation of automobiles or other equipment to authorized individuals who are not intoxicated or drug-impaired.
Trent Ridder, Ben ver Steeg, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen, "System for Noninvasive Determination of Alcohol in Tissue,"
Filed 2011-11-17: US20110282167A1
Filed 2015-07-30: US20150208983A9
Patent Pending
An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal- to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, an FTIR spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem.
Trent Ridder, Bill Kardeen, Bentley Laaksonen, Ben Ver Steeg, James McNally, Mike Mills, "Methods and apparatuses for improving breath alcohol testing,"
Filed 2011-07-21: US20110178420A1
Patent Pending
Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for improving the performance and utility of breath alcohol measurements through the use of multivariate spectroscopy. In some embodiments, the spectroscopic breath measurement can be combined with multivariate spectroscopic tissue alcohol and/or tissue biometric measurements in order to overcome the limitations encountered by existing breath alcohol measurement devices.
Trent Ridder, Ben Ver Steeg, James McNally, John Maynard, Russell Abbink, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen, "System for Noninvasive Determination of Analytes in Tissue,"
Filed 2009-09-17: US20100010325A1
Issued 2012-05-08: US8174394B2
An apparatus and method for noninvasive determination of analyte properties of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems can include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem. The invention can provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely than in systems that use separate analyte and identity determinations. The invention can be used to control and monitor individuals accessing controlled environments.



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