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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Dwight U. Bartholomew, Dallas, TX (US);
Jose L. Melendez, Plano, TX (US);
Richard A. Carr, Rowlett, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A sensor control and data analysis system ( ) for detecting and analyzing various (bio)chemical properties of a given sample substance ( ) using an integrated SPR sensor ( ) or other miniaturized sensor configuration. In one embodiment, raw sensor data from the sensing device ( ) is transferred to a remote processing system ( ), such as a desktop computer, having a display ( ), keyboard or other user control and data entry device ( ), internal storage area ( ), internal microprocessor ( ) and a communications means ( ). The processing system ( ) runs a software application program ( ) that receives the raw sample data and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to render meaningful information about the sample substance.