Patents by Inventor Jeffery A. Konecke

Jeffery A. Konecke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7244392
    Abstract: A specimen cup (100) has slide-in cassette (102) hermetically sealed in a chamber (104), with a outer partition being transparent. The cassette comprised chemical test strips (106) used to provide testing of drugs of abuse or other chemical or biological substances. The cassette is designed to draw urine up from the front bottom of the cup, thereby reduces the amount of urine required to perform the test. Further the cassette is designed to form isolated test channels through the use of strategically placed vertical and horizontal bars which are hermetically sealed. The cup further comprises a spill prevention flap or float (108) and an optionally enlarged sample collection portion (110) for its operation. The windows of the test cassette are covered with transparent fluid-resistant plate to prevent urine from accidentally spill onto the strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH
    Inventor: Jeffery A. Konecke
  • Patent number: 6663831
    Abstract: A “one-device” system and method for collecting, extracting testing, and confirming various constituents in fluids is described. Particularly, it relates to the detection of various drugs of abuse in bodily fluids. More particularly, it collects and performs assay of a human's saliva, sweat, urine or other bodily fluid sample to test and/or confirm for drugs of abuse. In a preferred embodiment, the bodily fluid is collected via a collection end of the device, a series of pressure heads inside the cap of the collection device forces the sample, as the collection end of the device passes through the pressure heads, into the core of an immunoassay system containing diagnostic strips for illegal drug detection. Furthermore, a portion of the sample is retained in a confirmation sample retention well, which is seal from the outside, allowing some samples to be sent, such as to a laboratory, for testing later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Forefront Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffery A. Konecke
  • Publication number: 20020146346
    Abstract: A “one-device” system and method for collecting, extracting testing, and confirming various constituents in fluids is described. Particularly, it relates to the detection of various drugs of abuse in bodily fluids. More particularly, it collects and performs assay of a human's saliva, sweat, urine or other bodily fluid sample to test and/or confirm for drugs of abuse. In a preferred embodiment, the bodily fluid is collected via a collection end of the device, a series of pressure heads inside the cap of the collection device forces the sample, as the collection end of the device passes through the pressure heads, into the core of an immunoassay system containing diagnostic strips for illegal drug detection. Furthermore, a portion of the sample is retained in a confirmation sample retention well, which is seal from the outside, allowing some samples to be sent, such as to a laboratory, for testing later.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Forefront Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffery A. Konecke