US 11,692,942 B2
Portable spectrometer for chemical sensing
Richard Kingsborough, Groton, MA (US); Alexander Stolyarov, Belmont, MA (US); Shane Tysk, Arlington, MA (US); and Lauren Cantley, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Aug. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/999,667.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/890,215, filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0055228 A1, Feb. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 21/78 (2006.01); G01N 21/77 (2006.01); G01N 21/31 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/78 (2013.01) [G01N 21/31 (2013.01); G01N 2021/7756 (2013.01); G01N 2021/7773 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0627 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable spectrometer device comprising:
a first fabric layer;
a control component; and
a second fabric layer coupled to the first fabric layer to form a pouch, the second fabric layer comprising a fiber fabric spectrometer substrate comprising a fiber material including one or more electronic devices coupled to the control component programmed to measure reflectance of a removable colorimetric substrate inserted into the pouch, wherein
the control component is disposed in the pouch, the control component coupled to the fiber fabric spectrometer substrate and configured to control at least one of the one or more electronic devices of the fiber fabric spectrometer substrate.