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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:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
James N. Herron, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Douglas A. Christensen, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/164 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/164 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system (,) for determining analyte concentration. The system (,) includes an optical detection system (,) that detects fluorescence from fluorescent binding assays in a biosensor (,). A processing system (,) may be used to determine analyte concentration from the fluorescence detected by the optical detection system (,). The optical detection system (,) may include photodetectors with or without in series lenses. Alternatively, a CCD camera (,) may be used.