Patents Assigned to i-calQ, LLC
  • Patent number: 10871486
    Abstract: Devices and methods for performing a point of care diagnostic test for detecting and quantifying at least one analyte in a biological sample. The device may include an immunoassay apparatus and a holder with a variable angle stage for positioning the immunoassay apparatus relative to a light source and a detector device. In one embodiment, the device is based upon elastic light scattering, so the variation in the angle of incidence and angle of reflection are optimized to maximize signal generation due to elastic light scattering. The detector device may include a wired or wireless connection to a computer network for communicating with an electronic medical records system, uploading the amount or concentration of at least one analyte present in the sample to the electronic medical records system, or querying a decision support algorithm stored in a computer readable format. The detector device may further include an onboard interpretive algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: i-calQ, LLC
    Inventors: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz, Pamela J. Turbeville, Jeong-Yeol Yoon, David J. You
  • Patent number: 10859568
    Abstract: Devices and methods for performing a point of care diagnostic test for detecting and quantifying at least one analyte in a biological sample. The device may include an immunoassay apparatus and a holder with a variable angle stage for positioning the immunoassay apparatus relative to a light source and a detector device. In one embodiment, the device is based upon elastic light scattering, so the variation in the angle of incidence and angle of reflection are optimized to maximize signal generation due to elastic light scattering. The detector device may include a wired or wireless connection to a computer network for communicating with an electronic medical records system, uploading the amount or concentration of at least one analyte present in the sample to the electronic medical records system, or querying a decision support algorithm stored in a computer readable format. The detector device may further include an onboard interpretive algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: i-CAlQ, LLC
    Inventors: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz, Pamela J. Turbeville, Jeong-Yeol Yoon, David J. You
  • Patent number: 10613082
    Abstract: Assay cassettes and testing devices that can be used to provide rapid, accurate, affordable, laboratory-quality testing at the point of care. Such assay cassettes and testing devices are designed to provide rapid, quantitative test results in a point-of-care setting or the like. Likewise, such assay cassettes and testing devices may eliminate or replace expensive, centralized clinical testing equipment and technical personnel. Such testing device may include automated data reporting and decision support. Methods for performing point of care diagnostic tests are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: i-calQ, LLC
    Inventor: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz
  • Patent number: 10498936
    Abstract: Devices and methods for performing a point of care diagnostic test. In one embodiment, such a device may be adaptable to essentially any handheld digital imaging device. Such a device may include a sample holder for positioning an assay device in relation to the digital imaging device and an expandable/contractible member having the sample holder slidably coupled thereto. The expandable/contractible member is configured for removably attaching the testing device the digital imaging device and for positioning the sample holder in relation to an image capture means of the digital imaging device. In one embodiment, such devices may include a second slot configured for receiving one or more of a second assay cassette, an assay device, assay cassettes of various sizes, a printed circuit board, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: i-CalQ, LLC
    Inventor: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz
  • Patent number: 10352920
    Abstract: Methods for monitoring and adjusting a physiological state of a subject. The methods include (1) providing a subject having one or more physiological parameters defined by one or more biometrics, (2) monitoring a selected biometric analyte associated with a selected biometric to define a state of the selected biometric, (3) based on the results of the monitoring, adjusting the state of the selected biometric by administering to the subject a supplement selected to affect the state of the selected biometric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: i-calQ, LLC
    Inventor: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz
  • Patent number: 10132802
    Abstract: Assay cassettes and testing devices that can be used to provide rapid, accurate, affordable, laboratory-quality testing at the point of care. Such assay cassettes and testing devices are designed to provide rapid, quantitative test results in a point-of-care setting or the like. Likewise, such assay cassettes and testing devices may eliminate or replace expensive, centralized clinical testing equipment and technical personnel. Such testing device may include automated data reporting and decision support. Methods for performing point of care diagnostic tests are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: I-CALQ, LLC
    Inventor: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz
  • Patent number: 10054584
    Abstract: Devices and methods for performing a point of care diagnostic test for detecting and quantifying at least one analyte in a biological sample. The device may include an immunoassay apparatus and a holder with a variable angle stage for positioning the immunoassay apparatus relative to a light source and a detector device. In one embodiment, the device is based upon elastic light scattering, so the variation in the angle of incidence and angle of reflection are optimized to maximize signal generation due to elastic light scattering. The detector device may include a wired or wireless connection to a computer network for communicating with an electronic medical records system, uploading the amount or concentration of at least one analyte present in the sample to the electronic medical records system, or querying a decision support algorithm stored in a computer readable format. The detector device may further include an onboard interpretive algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: I-CALQ, LLC
    Inventors: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz, Pamela J. Turbeville, Jeong-Yeol Yoon, David J. You
  • Patent number: 9322767
    Abstract: Devices and methods for performing a point of care blood, cell, and/or pathogen count or a similar blood test. Disclosed herein are systems that can be used to provide rapid, accurate, affordable laboratory-quality testing at the point of care. The systems described herein are capable of imaging and counting individual cells in a prepared cell sample (e.g., a peripheral blood smear or a blood sample prepared in a microfluidic device) or another prepared cell-containing sample without the need for a microscope or other expensive and cumbersome optics. The systems described herein are designed to eliminate or replace expensive, centralized clinical testing equipment and technical personnel. Such systems may include automated data reporting and decision support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: i-calQ, LLC
    Inventor: Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz