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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1997
Tad Decatur Simons, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Greenstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dominique Freeman, Pescadero, CA (US);
Leslie Anne Leonard, Portola Valley, CA (US);
David A King, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Lum, Los Altos, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A cartridge for sampling and analyzing blood from the skin of a patient. The cartridge has a cartridge case, a lancet, and associated with the cartridge case an analytical region for analyzing the property of blood. The lancet has a tip for lancing the skin and is housed in the cartridge case. The lancet is operatively connected to the cartridge case such that the lancet can be pushed to extend its tip outside the cartridge case for lancing the skin to yield blood. The blood from the lancing wound is transferred to the analytical region and be analyzed.