Material metric measurement
AssigneeDEKA Products Limited Partneship
InventorsLauren N. Shum, David Blumberg, Jr.
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
System and method for monitoring material change by measuring at least one metric. In a first configuration, an EM signal is transmitted across a calibrated transmission configuration to at least one load including the material, the reflection is measured, and the at least one metric is calculated based at least on the reflection. In a second configuration, an EM signal is transmitted in the vicinity of at least one resonator that is operably coupled with a load that can include the material. An EM signal is received that has been affected by the resonator, and a measurement of the at least one metric can be based at least on the received signal.
Claims6
A method for measuring at least one metric of at least one cell culture that is accumulating or shedding biological material, the method comprising:
- transmitting a signal through a calibrated transmission configuration, the calibrated transmission configuration having a characteristic impedance, the calibrated transmission configuration terminating in at least one biological cell culture having a first impedance;
- measuring reflection in the calibrated transmission configuration, the reflection based at least on the transmitted signal, the reflection being caused by an impedance mismatch between the characteristic impedance and the first impedance;
- following the measuring of the reflection of the signal, transmitting, a second signal through the calibrated transmission configuration, the least one biological cell culture having a second impedance;
- measuring a second reflection in the calibrated transmission configuration, the second reflection being caused by an impedance mismatch between the characteristic impedance and the second impedance;
- and
- determining the at least one metric relating to the biological material based at least on a comparison between the first and second reflections associated with the at least one biological cell culture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.