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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Erna Donnerbauer, Eberfing, DE;
Ursula Giesen, Weilheim, DE;
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a luminescence method of detecting an analyte in a liquid sample comprising marking the analyte with a marker capable of effecting luminescence upon application of excitation energy, wherein reference data descriptive of the luminescence decay is stored in an electronic memory; applying the excitation energy for causing the luminescence; time-resolved measuring of the luminescence over a period of time for acquisition of a measurement signal; reading the reference data from the electronic memory; comparing the measurement signal with the luminescence decay described by the reference data; generating an output signal indicative of the presence of the analyte in the liquid sample using the measurement signal; in case of a mismatch of the measurement signal and the luminescence decay described by the reference data, generating an error signal.