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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2002
John Lemke, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert Justice Shartle, Livermore, CA (US);
Victor Pan, Fremont, CA (US);
Philip Cizdziel, San Jose, CA (US);
John Lemke, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert Justice Shartle, Livermore, CA (US);
Victor Pan, Fremont, CA (US);
Philip Cizdziel, San Jose, CA (US);
Lifescan, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A fluidic medical diagnostic device permits measurement of analyte concentration or a property of a biological fluid, particularly the coagulation time of blood. The device has at one end a sample port for introducing a sample and at the other end a bladder for drawing the sample to a measurement area. A channel carries the sample from the sample port to the measurement area, and a stop junction, between the measurement area and bladder, halts the sample flow. The desired measurement can be made by placing the device into a meter which measures a physical property of the sample—typically, optical transmittance—after it has interacted with a reagent in the measurement area.