Noninvasive RF Analyte Detection Signal Sequencing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current noninvasive RF analyte detection devices face challenges in efficiently detecting specific analytes due to numerous transmit signals and settings, time-consuming signal filtering, and noise issues, such as transmitting incorrect signals or receiving unwanted signals.

Innovation Solution

An enhanced noninvasive RF analyte detection device incorporating an enhancement database, integration module, transmission module, sending enhancement module, and receiving enhancement module, which determines the mode for analyte detection by executing specific sequences of transmission and reception signals stored in the database, ensuring accurate signal transmission and reception.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If numerous transmit signals and settings are used to detect specific analytes, then the detection capability is improved, but the time consumption and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection capabilityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-calculates and stores optimal transmit signals, filter settings, and receive signal configurations in a database before actual analyte detection. This preliminary preparation allows the system to quickly retrieve and execute pre-optimized signal sequences without performing time-consuming signal processing during detection, thereby resolving the contradiction between comprehensive detection capability and time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the complex signal processing task into separate functional modules: a transmission module for sending pre-determined transmit signals, a filtering module for applying pre-configured filter settings, and a receiving module for capturing expected response signals. This segmentation allows each module to operate independently with optimized parameters, improving overall detection efficiency while maintaining comprehensive analyte detection capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If numerous transmit signals and settings are used to detect specific analytes, then the detection capability is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a database as an intermediary component that stores pre-calculated transmit signals, filter settings, and expected response signals. This database acts as a mediator between the control system and the signal processing modules, eliminating the need for complex real-time signal generation and filtering logic in the main device architecture, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining detection capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the operational parameters (transmit signal characteristics, filter settings, receive signal thresholds) based on pre-determined configurations stored in the database rather than using fixed complex processing logic. By dynamically adjusting these parameters according to pre-optimized values, the system achieves high detection capability without requiring complex device architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If signal filtering and processing are performed to identify specific analytes, then the accuracy of analyte identification is improved, but noise issues and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of analyte identificationVSAvoidnoise issues
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-determines and stores optimal filter settings and signal processing parameters in the database before actual detection. By preparing these filtering configurations in advance based on expected analyte responses, the system can apply precisely tuned filters during detection that effectively suppress noise while maintaining signal integrity, thereby improving measurement precision without introducing additional noise or time delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive signal transmission and reception is performed, then the detection capability is improved, but the reliability decreases due to noise and incorrect signal transmission

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection capabilityVSAvoidsignal transmission reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system compares received signals against pre-stored expected response signals in the database. By continuously monitoring whether received signals match expected patterns and adjusting signal transmission parameters accordingly, the system ensures reliable analyte detection while maintaining comprehensive detection capability. This feedback loop prevents incorrect signal transmission and reception by validating signals against known expected outcomes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240310297A1Method to enhance a non-invasive RF analyte detection device
Publication Date: 2024.09.19 KNOW LABS INC
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AI summary

An enhanced noninvasive RF analyte detection device in which an enhancement database, an integration module, a transmission module, a sending enhancement module, and a receiving enhancement module are provided. The integration module determines the mode to detect a desired analyte, such as initiating the transmission module, sending enhancement module, and/or receiving enhancement module in a specific sequence. Once the mode is determined, the transmission module may send all of the transmit signals stored in the enhancement database, the sending enhancement module may transmit the signals related to the desired analyte that are stored in the enhancement module, and/or the receiving enhancement module may implement the receiving antenna settings for the desired analyte which are stored in the enhancement database.