Acoustic radiation for ejecting and monitoring pathogenic fluids

• Main Authors: Ellson Richard N, Mutz Mitchell W
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.03.2018
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; LIBRARIES, e.g. CHEMICAL LIBRARIES, IN SILICOLIBRARIES; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; VINEGAR; WINE

Method and system for monitoring for a change in the amount and/or concentration of a pathogen in a pathogenic fluid. The method includes providing a pathogen-impermeable enclosure enclosing the pathogenic fluid, wherein the pathogenic fluid includes a pathogen and a carrier fluid. Additionally, the method includes acoustically monitoring for a change in the amount and/or concentration of the pathogen enclosed in the pathogen-impermeable enclosure. The acoustically monitoring for a change in the amount and/or concentration of the pathogen enclosed in the pathogen-impermeable enclosure includes generating acoustic radiation directed towards the pathogen-impermeable enclosure, transmitting the acoustic radiation through the pathogen-impermeable enclosure or reflecting the acoustic radiation by the pathogenic fluid, receiving the acoustic radiation transmitted through the pathogen-impermeable enclosure or receiving the acoustic radiation reflected by the pathogenic fluid, and analyzing the received acoustic radiation.