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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2014
Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Nicholas Earl, Cambridge, GB;
Daniel Peterson Godfrey, Cambridge, GB;
John Dunton, Cambridge, GB;
Mark Hudson, Norwich, GB;
David Russell, Norwich, GB;
INTELLIGENT FINGERPRINTING LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A method of analyzing a skin-print provided on a first surface of an optically transparent substrate. The method comprises the steps of exposing the skin-print on the first surface of the optically transparent substrate to one or more reagents selected to bind with one or more metabolites present in the skin-print; transmitting electromagnetic radiation onto the skin-print through the optically transparent substrate using a radiation source to thereby produce an optical signal of said one or more reagents and/or said one or more metabolites; and detecting an optical image of the optical signal through the optically transparent substrate using a sensor. Also a skin-print analysis apparatus and a reagent cartridge for use in carrying out the method.