Lifescan Scotland Limited

Eli Lilly and Company

Politecnico Di Milano

Christian Fabio Forlani

Rossano Claudio Massari

Brian Guthrie

David Elder

Antony Smith

David McColl

Mehran Mojarrad

Lynsey Whyte

Neil Whitehead

Alexander Strachan

Guido Baroni

Yeswanth Gadde

Tim Lloyd

Alexander Cooper

Timothy Lloyd

Aurora Fassi

Marco Riboldi

A sensing system for determining a position of a plunger within a fluid container. The sensing system includes a light source, a light detector and a controller. The light source is configured to emit light into a barrel wall of the fluid container so that the barrel wall serves as a waveguide to guide the light to travel therein in an axial direction. The light detector is positioned to detect reflected light that was emitted by the light source, traveled through the barrel wall serving as the waveguide, and then reflected off a surface of the plunger. The controller is in communication with the light detector to determine an axial position of the plunger surface based on data from the light detector of the detected reflected light.

Sensing system for detecting a piston in a medical fluid container

An electrochemical-based analytical test strip for the determination of an analyte (such as glucose) in a bodily fluid sample (for example, a whole blood sample) and/or a characteristic of the bodily fluid sample (e.g., hematocrit) includes a sample-entry chamber with a sample-application opening disposed on an end edge of the electrochemical-based analytical test strip, and first and second sample-determination chambers, each in direct fluidic communication with the sample-entry chamber. The electrochemical-based analytical test strip also includes first and second electrodes (such as first and second hematocrit electrodes) disposed in the first sample-determination chamber, and a third and fourth electrodes (for example working and reference electrodes) disposed in the second sample-determination chamber. Moreover, the first and second sample-determination chambers intersect the sample-entry chamber perpendicular (or nearly perpendicular) to one another and the first sample-determination chamber also intersects the sample-entry chamber in an aligned manner.

End-fill electrochemical-based analytical test strip with perpendicular intersecting sample-receiving chambers

A portable analytical test meter is designed for use with an associated analytical test strip. A test-strip-receiving module receives the analytical test strip and is electrically connected to a dummy load calibration circuit block. That block is configured to provide a dummy magnitude correction and a dummy phase correction; and a memory block is configured to store the dummy magnitude correction and the dummy phase correction. A method for calibrating a portable analytical test meter for use with an analytical test strip includes determining a dummy magnitude correction and a dummy phase correction of the portable analytical test meter using a dummy load calibration circuit block of the portable analytical test meter. The dummy magnitude correction and the dummy phase correction are stored in a memory block of the portable analytical test meter. Using the stored dummy magnitude correction and stored dummy phase correction, an analyte is determined.

Analytical test meter

A device for non-invasive monitoring of an eye position and ocular movements of a patient having: a housing body () having at least one through opening (); a plurality of light sources () housed in said housing body (); a plurality of sensor means () housed in said housing body (); deflector means () for invisible radiation (RL) supplied, in use, by said plurality of light sources () and reflected by said eye (O) under examination; support means () that can be adjusted for said housing body (); at least one program data processing and control unit (). The support means () can be adjusted in such a way that the through opening () of the housing body () can be placed at the eye (O) under examination so that the invisible radiation hits the eye (O) frontally. The program data processing and control unit () is designed to calculate instant-by-instant the position and orientation of a suitable three-dimensional reference system integral with the eye with respect to a predetermined three-dimensional reference system.

Device for monitoring position and movements of an eye, particularly suitable for ocular radiotherapy

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Milan, Italy

Christian Fabio Forlani