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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
Verily Life Sciences Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Homyk, Belmont, CA (US);
Jerrod Joseph Schwartz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alberto Clemente Vitari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Simon Klein, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark Audeh, San Jose, CA (US);
Verily Life Sciences LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Body-mountable devices are provided to detect the presence or status of a tumor in a body by detecting one or more properties of a probe located in subsurface vasculature of the body. A wearable body-mountable device can be worn for a protracted period of time to detect a probe in the vasculature at low concentrations and/or at low rates. A body-mountable device can detect properties of the probe that are indicative of whether the probe has interacted with a tumor of the body and determine the presence or status of a tumor in the body based on such detected properties. Additionally or alternatively, the probe could be introduced into the body as a probe aggregate and released from if the probe aggregate is absorbed by a tumor. The presence of released probes could be detected to determine a presence or status of a tumor in the body.