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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2020
Baseline Global, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Balwant Rai, Dragor, DK;
Jeffery Floyd McAllister, Monona, WI (US);
Peter Andrew Smith, Cary, NC (US);
Jay Colton Zignego, Bahama, NC (US);
Michael Eugene O'Donnell, Sussex, WI (US);
Leonard Kristal, Berkeley, CA (US);
Matthew Hon Ming Kwok, Irvine, CA (US);
Mark Kin Ming Kwok, Irvine, CA (US);
Baseline Global, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Assay devices, systems, methods, and kits useful for detection of analytes in a bodily fluid sample, such as saliva, are disclosed herein. Assay devices may include a fluid sample collector and an assessment unit to which the fluid sample collector couples. The fluid sample collector may include a cap with a plunger and absorbent member that collects a bodily fluid sample. Insertion of the plunger into the assessment unit during coupling provides pressure-driven fluid flow through a filter rapidly delivering bodily fluid filtrate to one or more test panels which provide the assay result. In embodiments, an on-board light source enables a user to readily detect changes in a test panel indicative of the presence of an analyte thus providing an opportunity for obtaining rapid results with improved confidence.