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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1997
Jose L Melendez, Plano, TX (US);
Richard A Carr, Rowlett, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A self-contained optical sensor (5) with a device platform (7) and an encapsulating light transmissive housing (9) formed therein is disclosed in conjunction with several sensor configurations including fluorescence-based, surface plasmon resonance based and light transmissive (bio) chemical sensor applications. The sensor (10) has at least one light source (20), a photodetector (25), a power source (18) and a display (50) which are embedded in an encapsulating housing (14). In other embodiments, a signal processing unit (35), converter circuit (30) and wireless Communications means (40, 45) are also included in the housing (14).