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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2015
Verily Life Sciences Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jaclyn Leverett Wasson, Berkeley, CA (US);
William James Biederman, Fox Island, WA (US);
Zenghe Liu, Alameda, CA (US);
Brian Otis, Saratoga, CA (US);
Verily Life Sciences LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A flexible, body-mountable analyte sensing device includes a flexible substrate configured for mounting to skin of a living body. The sensing device additionally includes optical fiber attached to the flexible substrate and configured to penetrate the skin such that an analyte-sensitive substance disposed on the end of the optical fiber can detect an analyte in interstitial fluid. A color, fluorescence intensity, or other optical property of the analyte-sensitive substance is related to the concentration or other property of the analyte. Light reflected, scattered, fluorescently emitted, or otherwise emitted from the analyte-sensitive substance is transmitted via the optical fiber and detected by a light sensor on the flexible substrate. Such emitted light can be emitted in response to illumination of the analyte-sensitive substance via the optical fiber. The sensing device is configured to wirelessly indicate detected concentrations or other information about the analyte in the interstitial fluid.