Medical diagnostic system
CA 2036431 A1 · Owner: Christenson, Paul E. · Inventors: Jessen, Ross A.; Christenson, Paul E.; Linde, David E.
Overview
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Hand-held shirt-pocket portable instrument for quantitative measurement of glucose or analysis in biological fluids. The system accepts a disposable diagnostic reagent test device which has a reagent carrier and mode of identifying to the instrument the reagent lot characteristics. The instrument includes a housing structure having a visual LCD readout a, microprocessor, and photosensing circuitry which measures the change of color of the reagent carrier upon reaction in the reacting chemistry of the disposable test device. The housing also includes a spring arrangement for actuating a disposable lancet into the skin for generating blood. The disposable diagnostic reagent unit includes a …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 15, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 15, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 15, 2013.
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