US 11,707,262 B2
Systems and methods for real-time sweat sampling and analysis
Sean Harshman, Fairborn, OH (US); Anthony Qualley, Washington Township, OH (US); Amanda Bowman, Miamisburg, OH (US); Kraig Strayer, Fairborn, OH (US); Rhonda Pitsch, Springfield, OH (US); and Michael Brothers, Lebanon, OH (US)
Assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US)
Filed by Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/329,252.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,403, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0096059 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 10/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 10/0064 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4266 (2013.01); A61B 5/443 (2013.01); A61B 5/6824 (2013.01); A61B 5/6831 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A continuous real-time sweat collection and analysis system comprising:
a sweat collecting device comprising:
a main body having two surfaces comprising a sweat-collecting surface and an opposing outwardly-oriented surface, wherein said sweat-collecting surface has a concave configuration which defines a rim lying wholly within a common plane, wherein said main body has an axial bore extending between the sweat-collecting surface and the outwardly-oriented surface;
a length of sweat collector tubing having one end joined to said main body at said axial bore and a free end extending outwardly from the outwardly-oriented surface; and
an instrument for analyzing sweat collected from a person wherein said instrument has an input port for receiving fluid samples, and the free end of said sweat collector tubing is in fluid communication with the input port of said instrument, wherein said instrument is a mass spectrometer and said mass spectrometer is configured to receive sweat samples on a continuous basis from said sweat collecting device.