Selective resonance of chemical structures

• US 8,364,407 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2005
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Enterprise Science Fund, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Jung, Edward K. Y., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Jerry
• Application Number:
  US11/186,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,749 Days
• Field of Search: 702/19
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00577 Ablation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0059 using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence A61B5/0093, A61B5/1455, A61B5/02416 and A61B5/0261 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 41/0004 Homeopathy; Vitalisation; Resonance; Dynamisation, e.g. esoteric applications; Oxygenation of blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/00 Radiation therapy ultrasound therapy A61N7/00; devices or apparatus applicable to both therapy and diagnosis A61B6/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/062 Photodynamic therapy, i.e. excitation of an agent

Abstract

Chemical compositions may be characterized by scores comprising a series of at least four energy inputs, where the score is selected to resonate resonant structures of the chemical composition to produce a selective effect.

Claims

1. A method of characterizing a composition, comprising:

determining a score specifying a series of at least four differing energy inputs, the differing energy inputs of the specified series selected to resonate each resonant structure of a plurality of resonant structures of the composition, wherein application of the differing energy inputs of the score to the composition selectively affects the composition;

identifying the composition by the determined score; and

outputting a user-perceivable representation of the determined score identifying the composition,

wherein determining the score comprises determining resonant frequencies of the composition by electromagnetic spectroscopy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the score is selected such that the applied set of differing energy inputs has a physical effect on the composition selected from the group consisting of:

transferring substantially more energy to the composition than to other material to which the set of differing energy inputs is applied;

breaking a predetermined bond between two atoms of the composition; and

changing a kinetic parameter of a reaction involving the composition.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the score specifies application of an electromagnetic beam as an energy input.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the electromagnetic beam is an infrared beam.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the electromagnetic beam is amplitude modulated.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the electromagnetic beam is frequency modulated.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the electromagnetic beam has at least one characteristic selected from the group consisting of:

a selected set of frequencies;

a selected set of modulation frequencies;

a selected set of phases;

a selected set of amplitudes;

a selected temporal profile;

a selected set of polarizations; and

a selected direction.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the selected set of frequencies comprises a plurality of local maxima.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the selected set of modulation frequencies comprises a plurality of local maxima.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the selected set of frequencies is approximately monochromatic.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the electromagnetic beam is coherent.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the electromagnetic beam is incoherent.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the selected set of frequencies comprises at least two frequencies, and wherein the at least two frequencies have differing amplitudes.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein the electromagnetic beam is polarized.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the score specifies application of a plurality of electromagnetic beams.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of electromagnetic beams intersect at a target location.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the score specifies applying a field to the medium, wherein the field acts to preferentially orient at least a portion of the group of proximate atoms.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of resonant structures are in an arrangement having two end resonant structures and a center resonant structure; and

the score specifies energy inputs that resonate the plurality of resonant structures in a sequence beginning from the two end resonant structures and progressing towards the center resonant structure.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the composition undergoes a physical effect upon resonance of the center structure.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein resonance of the center structure breaks a predetermined bond between two atoms of the composition.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the composition is a biomolecule.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the composition is a nucleotide or a protein.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the score specifies at least 10 energy inputs.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the score specifies at least 36 energy inputs.