Patents Assigned to Nova Biomedical Corporation
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Patent number: 10088360Abstract: A compact optical spectrometer for measuring hemoglobin parameters in whole blood includes an enclosed spectrometer housing having a light entrance port, a light input slit disposed on one side of a circuit board substrate and positioned adjacent to and aligned with the light entrance port, a light-array detector disposed on the one side of the circuit board substrate adjacent the light input slit, a light dispersing element disposed downstream from the light input slit and an achromatic lens disposed between the light input slit and the light dispersing element to direct the light from the input slit to the light dispersing element and to direct the dispersed light from the light dispersing element to the light-array detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Michael S. Cafferty, Scott P. Cionek
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Patent number: 10088468Abstract: A system of measuring hemoglobin and bilirubin parameters in a whole blood sample using optical absorbance. The system includes an optical-sample module, a spectrometer module, an optical fiber module optically connecting the optical-sample module to the spectrometer module, and a processor module. The optical-sample module has a light-emitting module having a LED light source, a cuvette and a calibrating-light module. The processor module receives and processes an electrical signal from the spectrometer module and transforms the electrical signal into an output signal useable for displaying and reporting hemoglobin parameter values and/or total bilirubin parameter values for the whole blood sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Michael S. Cafferty, Scott P. Cionek
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Patent number: 9933411Abstract: A method of measuring whole-blood hemoglobin parameters includes providing a LED light source, guiding light having the spectral range from the LED light source along an optical path, providing a cuvette module with a sample receiving chamber, providing a pair of first and second optical diffusers disposed in the optical path where the cuvette module is disposed between the pair of first and second optical diffusers, guiding light from the cuvette module into an optical spectrometer, and processing an electrical signal from the spectrometer into an output signal useable for displaying and reporting hemoglobin parameter values and/or total bilirubin parameter values of the sample of whole blood.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Michael S. Cafferty, Scott P. Cionek
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Patent number: 9638686Abstract: A method of measuring whole-blood hemoglobin parameters includes providing a LED light source, guiding light having the spectral range from the LED light source along an optical path, providing a cuvette module with a sample receiving chamber, providing a pair of first and second optical diffusers disposed in the optical path where the cuvette module is disposed between the pair of first and second optical diffusers, guiding light from the cuvette module into an optical spectrometer, and processing an electrical signal from the spectrometer into an output signal useable for displaying and reporting hemoglobin parameter values and/or total bilirubin parameter values of the sample of whole blood.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Michael S. Cafferty, Scott P. Cionek
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Patent number: 9535053Abstract: A system of measuring hemoglobin and bilirubin parameters in a whole blood sample using optical absorbance. The system includes an optical-sample module, a spectrometer module, an optical fiber module optically connecting the optical-sample module to the spectrometer module, and a processor module. The optical-sample module has a light-emitting module having a LED light source, a cuvette and a calibrating-light module. The processor module receives and processes an electrical signal from the spectrometer module and transforms the electrical signal into an output signal useable for displaying and reporting hemoglobin parameter values and/or total bilirubin parameter values for the whole blood sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Michael S. Cafferty, Scott P. Cionek
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Patent number: 9039874Abstract: A disposable urea sensor has a laminated body having a fluid sample inlet end and an electrical contact end, a fluid sample inlet, a substantially flat sample chamber in communication between the fluid sample inlet and a vent opening, the sample chamber being adapted to collect a fluid sample through the fluid sample inlet, a working electrode and a reference electrode within the sample chamber, and a reagent matrix disposed on the working electrode wherein the reagent matrix contains urease.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Handani Winarta, Jianhong Pei, Mary Lauro, Chung Chang Young, Xiaohua Cai
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Publication number: 20150021205Abstract: A method of measuring lactate in a blood sample taken from capillary blood using a skin lancing procedure includes disposing onto an area of skin on an animal a predefined amount of a skin treatment compound that is capable of suppressing and/or eliminating and/or preventing and/or blocking any sweat from the skin in the area of a lanced wound site, the compound being disposed on the skin either before lancing the area of skin that provides a droplet of capillary blood for measurement of blood lactate concentration or after lancing the area of skin but before a droplet of capillary blood forms on the skin in order to prevent contaminating the blood sample, and then measuring the lactate concentration of the blood sample with a disposable lactate sensor strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Jianhong Pei, Chung Chang Young
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Patent number: 8925366Abstract: A gas-solution equilibrium device for a liquid sample gas analyzer includes a temperature-controlled, thermally-conductive mandrel, a coil of gas-permeable tubing wrapped around the mandrel, the gas-permeable tubing having an inlet and an outlet, and a housing having an internal space containing the temperature-controlled, thermally-conductive mandrel, the coil of gas-permeable tubing and a volume of gas where the gas-permeable tubing has a predefined linear length and a predefined wall thickness, the combination of which together is capable of equilibrating a liquid passing through the coil at a predefined flow rate with oxygen in the atmosphere to provide a gas calibration solution in real time at the outlet of the tubing for the liquid gas analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventor: Edward J. Mulhern
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Patent number: 8920342Abstract: A single-use lancet cartridge for inserting into a multi-use lancet driver assembly of a meter housing includes an elongated lancet housing with an open end, a lancet within the lancet housing and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end, and a re-use prevention component that is a rotated drive wing incorporated within the lancet cartridge and oriented to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into a piercing orientation a second time.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Patent number: 8758267Abstract: A lancet carrier for an integrated lancet sensor assembly incorporating a lance cover includes an elongated body with a bottom, an open top, a body open end and a body closed end, a lancet-receiving recess with a recess bottom surface, the recess extending between the open end and the closed end, and a trough-forming member forming a trough with a trough open end in communication with the body open end, the trough-forming member longitudinally extending a predefined distance along the bottom from the body open end, the trough replacing a portion of the recess bottom surface at the body open end.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Publication number: 20140083157Abstract: A gas-solution equilibrium device for a liquid sample gas analyzer includes a temperature-controlled, thermally-conductive mandrel, a coil of gas-permeable tubing wrapped around the mandrel, the gas-permeable tubing having an inlet and an outlet, and a housing having an internal space containing the temperature-controlled, thermally-conductive mandrel, the coil of gas-permeable tubing and a volume of gas where the gas-permeable tubing has a predefined linear length and a predefined wall thickness, the combination of which together is capable of equilibrating a liquid passing through the coil at a predefined flow rate with oxygen in the atmosphere to provide a gas calibration solution in real time at the outlet of the tubing for the liquid gas analyzer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventor: Edward J. Mulhern
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Publication number: 20140069823Abstract: A disposable urea sensor has a laminated body having a fluid sample inlet end and an electrical contact end, a fluid sample inlet, a substantially flat sample chamber in communication between the fluid sample inlet and a vent opening, the sample chamber being adapted to collect a fluid sample through the fluid sample inlet, a working electrode and a reference electrode within the sample chamber, and a reagent matrix disposed on the working electrode wherein the reagent matrix contains urease.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: NOVA BIOMEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Handani Winarta, Jianhong Pei, Mary Lauro, Chung Chang Young, Xiaohua Cai
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Patent number: 8617366Abstract: A disposable urea sensor has a laminated body having a fluid sample inlet end and an electrical contact end, a fluid sample inlet, a substantially flat sample chamber in communication between the fluid sample inlet and a vent opening, the sample chamber being adapted to collect a fluid sample through the fluid sample inlet, a working electrode and a reference electrode within the sample chamber, and a reagent matrix disposed on the working electrode wherein the reagent matrix contains urease.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Handani Winarta, Jianhong Pei, Mary Lauro, Chung Chang Young, Xiaohua Cai
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Patent number: 8603309Abstract: A disposable biosensor for determining the content of hemoglobin and hematocrit in a sample of whole blood that includes a laminated strip with a first and second end, at least a reference, a working electrode and a blank electrode embedded in the laminated strip. The working electrode contains a reagent sensitive to hemoglobin or hemotocrit. The blank electrode is used to measure oxidizable species in the fluid sample and to correct the current signal of the working electrode. The construction of the biosensor allows accurate measurement of the impedance of a small fluid sample, which is used to further correct the current signal of the working electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Xiaohua Cai, Chung Chang Young, Jessica Joy Mokfienski
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Publication number: 20130253373Abstract: A single-use lancet cartridge for inserting into a multi-use lancet driver assembly of a meter housing includes an elongated lancet housing with an open end, a lancet within the lancet housing and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end, and a re-use prevention component that is a rotated drive wing incorporated within the lancet cartridge and oriented to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into a piercing orientation a second time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Patent number: 8500990Abstract: A biosensor for measuring an analyte in a liquid sample includes a working electrode having a dispensed reagent thereon wherein the dispensed reagent contains an enzyme capable of catalyzing a reaction involving the analyte, a mediator that is considered an enzyme inhibitor, and an enzyme co-factor where the working electrode provides a stable and sensitive response even when the biosensor is stored at ambient conditions for a period of time selected from the group consisting of at least 3 months, 12 months and two years or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: Jianhong Pei, Chung Chang Young
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Patent number: 8449480Abstract: A single-use lancet cartridge for inserting into a multi-use lancet driver assembly includes an elongated lancet housing with an open end, a lancet within the lancet housing and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end, and a re-use prevention component incorporated within the lancet cartridge and oriented to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into a piercing orientation a second time. The single-use lancet cartridge is used that contains the multi-use lancet driver assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett
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Publication number: 20130098775Abstract: A disposable biosensor having improved long term storage stability including a working electrode and a reference electrode formed on an insulating substrate and a dissolvable reagent layer composition disposed directly on the working electrode where the reagent layer composition contains a glucose-based enzyme, a reagent component selected from a phosphate buffer and a tris reagent, and a redox mediator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: NOVA BIOMEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jianhong Pei, Andy Vo, Chung Chang Young
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Patent number: 8276793Abstract: A fitment for use with a flexible container having a lower fitment member with a fluid conducting opening in a top surface and an upper fitment member with an upper fitment opening in an upper fitment bottom surface where the fluid conducting opening and the upper fitment opening form a fluid passageway or conduit. A wall of the flexible container is compressibly held between the top surface of the lower fitment member and the upper fitment bottom surface. The fitment may also include one or more additional walls of one or more additional flexible containers forming a bag-in-a-bag structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: David H. Dicks, Anand P. Panchu, John C. Balsavich, Jr., Jonas S. Campos, Jeffrey C. Chien
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Patent number: 7972281Abstract: A method of obtaining a test sample from a specimen using a lancet system includes engaging a lancet driver against a drive wing of a lancet system, the lancet system having a major portion of a lancet member slidably engaged within a lancet carrier and a sensor strip with a sample chamber attached to the lancet carrier, the lancet system having a lance connected to a first end of a lancet body of the lancet member wherein the lance is movable from a retracted position within the lancet carrier to an extended position outside the lancet carrier, the drive wing extending outwardly and transversely from the lancet body, the major portion of the lancet member having a sinuous portion with a distal end restricted from movement by the lancet carrier, the sinuous portion being non-compressible when initially disposed within the lancet carrier wherein the drive wing prevents the sinuous portion from being compressed, moving the drive wing with the lancet driver a predetermined distance causing the lancet tip to moveType: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Nova Biomedical CorporationInventors: James Fowler, Robert Daggett, Garland O'Connell, James S. Sidwell, Avi M. Robbins, Chris Ruf, Jeffrey T. Stout