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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michel J. N. Cormier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Felix Theeuwes, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/100 ; A61B 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/100 ; A61B 5/00 ;
Abstract
A minimally invasive transdermal agent sampling device ( ) comprises a sheet ( ) having a plurality of openings ( ) and a plurality of microblades ( ) for piercing the skin ( ). A suction device ( ) applies a negative pressure through the openings ( ) to the microslits in the skin ( ) for enhanced efflux of interstitial fluid. The device ( ) can be used for transdermal sampling of body analytes such as glucose for measuring/estimating blood glucose concentration.