Test element coding apparatuses, systems and methods

US8789756B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• John T. Austera · Indianapolis, US
• Abner D. Joseph · Carmel, US
• Randall K. Riggles · Indianapolis, US
• Herbert Harttig · Neustadt, DE
• Hans List · Prien am Chiemsee, DE
• Bernd Roesicke · Mannheim, DE
• Gerrit Kocherscheidt · Heidelberg, DE
• Bruno Thoes · Quierschied, DE
• Jean-Michel Ashour · Weinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 11, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 29, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/00851
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Certain exemplary embodiments include a test element operable to receive a sample and to provide an indication of an analyte of the sample to a meter. In one form test element comprises a substrate and an optically readable pattern provided on the substrate which encodes information relating to the test element.