National Patent Development Corporation

Medical Laboratory Automation, Inc.

Hydro Med Sciences, Inc.

Didya D Levy

Richard E Scordato

Samuel H Ronel

Walter Greenfield

John J Hartnett

Finger lancing device

A plurality of cuvettes joined together by breakable links between each cuvette for use in testing blood for its ABO classification and the presence of a typical antibodies, and for crossmatching blood for compatibility, together with label means for indicating the reagents used in each cuvette and the identity of the person whose blood is being tested. The cuvettes may be adapted to accept a closure means which permits the cuvettes to be pre-packaged with reagents required to carry out blood tests. The cuvettes have a hydrophilic polymer coating thereon that is non-destructive of red blood cells.

Blood bank cuvette cassette and label therefor

A pipette calibration kit containing a plurality of solutions, each of a predetermined concentration, which are used for plotting a calibration curve, and at least one reagent of a predetermined concentration which is used to replace an identical quantity of diluent in a predetermined volume of the diluent. The concentration of the reagent-diluent mixture is measured and the quantity of the reagent substituted for diluent in the reagent-diluent mixture, i.e., the volume of the pipette used to add the reagent to the diluent, is determined from the calibration curve.

Kit for calibrating pipettes

Products are prepared of solid hydrogel matrixes having entrapped therein high-surface area sorbent materials, preferably activated carbon. The entrapped absorbent has an effective surface area no greater than about 1% of the actual surface area of the sorbent material, e.g., activated carbon per se, preferably not over 0.001%. The products are particularly useful in radioimmunoassay for antigens.

Hydrophilic absorbents

A method and apparatus for stimulating in vivo bone growth whereby a train of electrical pulses, rather than a direct current potential, is applied to the bone in vivo to produce faster and more satisfactory growth than a direct current voltage. In the embodiment described below, an astable multivibrator producing a pulse train with a duty cycle preferably between 1/10% and 10% is encapsulated in a corrosion resistant material which is, in turn, coated with a non-toxic, non-tissue reactive coating to produce a self-contained prosthetic which will stimulate bone growth. A second component of this prosthetic system is comprised of a suitable substrate material that can be electrically driven to induce tissue infiltration into the substrate pore structure. This second component of the prosthetic system is not required for the proper functioning of the active component of said prosthetic system but may be used as an adjunct aid if the attending physician so elects. In the embodiment described below, several classes of such materials are discussed. These materials are non-toxic and non-tissue reactive and are of such design as to readily permit tissue infiltration.

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Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Didya D Levy