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Patent US10466216
Issued 2019-11-05
Cannabinoid Concentration Analyzer And Method
A cannabinoid analysis system includes a solvent input port configured to receive a flow of a solvent, a sample input port configured to receive a chemical mixture including a sample, a pump configured to move the solvent and chemical mixture, an extraction cartridge coupled to the pump and configured to separate a combination of the chemical mixture and the flow of the solvent into two or more partially-separated chemical components, a spectroscopy cell configured to generate a chromatogram including two or more overlapping absorption peaks corresponding to the two or more partially-separated chemical components, and a controller configured to determine a chemical concentration of each partially-separated chemical component of the two or more partially-separated chemical components.
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- 1. A cannabinoid analysis system comprising:
a solvent input port configured to receive a flow of a solvent; a sample input port configured to receive a chemical mixture including a sample; a pump configured to move the solvent and chemical mixture; an extraction cartridge coupled to the pump and configured to separate a combination of the chemical mixture and the flow of the solvent into two or more partially-separated chemical components; a spectroscopy cell configured to generate a chromatogram including two or more overlapping absorption peaks corresponding to the two or more partially-separated chemical components; and a controller configured to determine a chemical concentration of each partially-separated chemical component of the two or more partially-separated chemical components by (a) for each absorption peak overlapping with another absorption peak, quantifying an interference factor corresponding to a degree of overlap between the absorption peaks, (b) computing an area of each absorption peak, (c) correcting the computed area of an absorption peak by any interference factor associated therewith, and (d) computing the chemical concentration of each of the partially-separated chemical components based on the corresponding corrected absorption peaks, wherein the controller is further configured 1 to represent the interference factors in a square matrix and to compute the chemical concentration of each of the partially-separated chemical components based on the corresponding corrected absorption peaks by (a) inverting the matrix, (b) producing a corrected matrix from the inverted matrix, and (c) transforming the corrected matrix into relative concentration data.
- 11. A cannabinoid analysis system comprising:
a solvent input port configured to receive a flow of a solvent; a sample input port configured to receive a chemical mixture including a sample; a pump configured to move the solvent and chemical mixture; an extraction cartridge coupled to the pump and configured to separate a combination of the chemical mixture and the flow of the solvent into two or more partially-separated chemical components; a spectroscopy cell configured to generate a chromatogram including two or more overlapping absorption peaks corresponding to the two or more partially-separated chemical components; and a controller configured to determine a chemical concentration of each partially-separated chemical component of the two or more partially-separated chemical components by (a) for each absorption peak overlapping with another absorption peak, quantifying an interference factor corresponding to a degree of overlap between the absorption peaks, (b) computing an area of each absorption peak, (c) correcting the computed area of an absorption peak by each interference factor associated therewith, and (d) computing the chemical concentration of each of the partially-separated chemical components based on the corresponding corrected absorption peaks, wherein the controller is further configured to operate the pump in an abnormal operating mode upon detection of an obstruction in the moving solvent and chemical mixture, whereby in the abnormal operating mode a mixture of the solvent and sample particulates is driven to exit the system via the sample input port.
