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Patent Detail: Passive sampling devices

Patent Detail

Superfund Research Program

Passive sampling devices

Number: 9,849,489
Year: 2017
Patent Status: Pending
Authors: Anderson, K.A., S.G. O'Connell

A method includes receiving a wearable monitoring device worn by a user and information indicative of an amount of time the wearable monitoring device was exposed to an environment; extracting one or more compounds from the wearable monitoring device; analyzing the extracted compounds; and, based on the analysis of the extracted compounds and the information indicative of the amount of time, determining information indicative of the user's exposure to the compounds in the environment.

Associated Projects:

  • Oregon State University: Chemical Mixtures Core
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