US 11,885,788 B2
Apparatus and method for multimode analytical sensing of items such as food
Daniel L. Farkas, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); Li Kang, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); Stanislov Sokolov, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); Fartash Vasefi, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); and Alireza Akhbardeh, Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Assigned to Safety Spect, Inc, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by SafetySpect, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/681,568.
Application 17/681,568 is a continuation of application No. 16/358,531, filed on Mar. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,280,777.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/645,514, filed on Jun. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0268751 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01N 33/12 (2006.01); G01N 21/49 (2006.01); G01N 21/55 (2014.01); G01N 21/65 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G01N 33/12 (2013.01) [G01N 21/49 (2013.01); G01N 21/55 (2013.01); G01N 21/645 (2013.01); G01N 21/65 (2013.01); G01N 2201/127 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biological sample inspection apparatus, comprising:
an illumination hardware arrangement comprising transmission and sensing hardware configured to inspect a biological sample using at least two modes from a group comprising:
a fluorescence imaging mode;
a reflectance imaging mode;
a scattering imaging mode; and
a Raman imaging mode; and
processing hardware configured to operate the illumination hardware arrangement according to a protocol comprising inspection settings of the at least two modes;
wherein the processing hardware receives scan results from the illumination hardware arrangement and identifies attributes of the biological sample by constructing a multidimensional dataset comprising at least one spatial dimension and at least one spectral dimension from the scan results and analyzing the multidimensional dataset;
wherein the processing hardware is configured to employ the attributes of at least one biological sample and alter the protocol.