Patents by Inventor Abner D. Joseph
Abner D. Joseph 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).
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Patent number: 10996184Abstract: A biosensor including a capillary chamber having an inner boundary, a working electrode including an effective working electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and a counter electrode including an effective counter electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and with the working and counter electrodes each having a neck that constitutes the sole portion of the electrodes that extends across the inner boundary and out of the capillary chamber. In one embodiment, the effective working electrode portion defines an average working electrode width, and the working electrode neck defines a working electrode neck width that is reduced relative to the average working electrode width.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Randall K. Riggles, Abner D. Joseph, Scott E. Carpenter, Harvey B. Buck, Jr., Georgeta C. Lica, Terry A. Beaty
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Publication number: 20180348159Abstract: A biosensor including a capillary chamber having an inner boundary, a working electrode including an effective working electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and a counter electrode including an effective counter electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and with the working and counter electrodes each having a neck that constitutes the sole portion of the electrodes that extends across the inner boundary and out of the capillary chamber. In one embodiment, the effective working electrode portion defines an average working electrode width, and the working electrode neck defines a working electrode neck width that is reduced relative to the average working electrode width.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Randall K. Riggles, Abner D. Joseph, Scott E. Carpenter, Harvey B. Buck, JR., Georgeta C. Lica, Terry A. Beaty
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Patent number: 10041901Abstract: A biosensor including a capillary chamber having an inner boundary, a working electrode including an effective working electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and a counter electrode including an effective counter electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and with the working and counter electrodes each having a neck that constitutes the sole portion of the electrodes that extends across the inner boundary and out of the capillary chamber. In one embodiment, the effective working electrode portion defines an average working electrode width, and the working electrode neck defines a working electrode neck width that is reduced relative to the average working electrode width.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Randall K. Riggles, Abner D. Joseph, Scott E. Carpenter, Harvey E. Buck, Jr., Georgeta C. Lica, Terry A. Beaty
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Patent number: 9267911Abstract: An analyte test sensor strip is disclosed having information coded thereon as well as a method of forming the same and conducting an analyte test using the analyte test sensor strip. Information relating to an attribute of the strip or batch/lot of strips may be coded based on resistance values pertaining to electrical aspects of the strip, such as a primary resistive element and a secondary resistive element, the secondary resistive element having one of a plurality of states defined by a location of a closed tap to form a unique resistive path for the secondary resistive element that includes a portion of the primary resistive element depending on the location of the closed tap. The states may be formed on the strip by a secondary processing step in the manufacture of the strip in which a plurality of taps are severed leaving only one tap in a closed state.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: John T. Austera, Terry A. Beaty, Abner D. Joseph, Nathan E. Manlove, Steven K. Moore, James L. Pauley, Jr., Randall K. Riggles
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Patent number: 8992750Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a test strip with a sample chamber opening spanning the width of the test strip at the sampling end and including a portion of the lateral sides at that end. The chamber is vertically bounded by upper and lower substrate layers, horizontally bounded by the front face of a spacer layer, and open on the remaining sides. The test strip fills rapidly and requires small sample volumes. Both 1-up and 2-up manufacturing techniques for producing such test strips eliminate registration and alignment steps, and other techniques relating to the 2-up technique (simultaneously manufacturing test strips arranged in multiple columns) are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Terry A. Beaty, Eric R. Diebold, Abner D. Joseph, Randall K. Riggles
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Publication number: 20150076010Abstract: An analyte test sensor strip is disclosed having information coded thereon as well as a method of forming the same and conducting an analyte test using the analyte test sensor strip. Information relating to an attribute of the strip or batch/lot of strips may be coded based on resistance values pertaining to electrical aspects of the strip, such as a primary resistive element and a secondary resistive element, the secondary resistive element having one of a plurality of states defined by a location of a closed tap to form a unique resistive path for the secondary resistive element that includes a portion of the primary resistive element depending on the location of the closed tap. The states may be formed on the strip by a secondary processing step in the manufacture of the strip in which a plurality of taps are severed leaving only one tap in a closed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: John T. Austera, Terry A. Beaty, Abner D. Joseph, Nathan E. Manlove, Steven K. Moore, James L. Pauley, JR., Randall K. Riggles
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Patent number: 8888973Abstract: An analyte test sensor strip is disclosed having information coded thereon as well as a method of forming the same and conducting an analyte test using the analyte test sensor strip. Information relating to an attribute of the strip or batch/lot of strips may be coded based on resistance values pertaining to electrical aspects of the strip, such as a primary resistive element and a secondary resistive element, the secondary resistive element having one of a plurality of states defined by a location of a closed tap to form a unique resistive path for the secondary resistive element that includes a portion of the primary resistive element depending on the location of the closed tap. The states may be formed on the strip by a secondary processing step in the manufacture of the strip in which a plurality of taps are severed leaving only one tap in a closed state.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: John T. Austera, Terry A. Beaty, Abner D. Joseph, Nathan E. Manlove, Steven K. Moore, James L. Pauley, Jr., Randall K. Riggles
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Patent number: 8844725Abstract: A test strip container with an insert comprising a channel and a retaining member and methods of manufacturing and utilization thereof are disclosed. The container includes a housing, an insert, a lid, and at least one retaining member in at least one channel. The at least one retaining member releasably retains a plurality of test strips in the at least one channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Matthew C. Sauers, Abner D. Joseph, Christopher Wiegel
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Publication number: 20140262773Abstract: A biosensor including a capillary chamber having an inner boundary, a working electrode including an effective working electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and a counter electrode including an effective counter electrode portion positioned within the capillary chamber, and with the working and counter electrodes each having a neck that constitutes the sole portion of the electrodes that extends across the inner boundary and out of the capillary chamber. In one embodiment, the effective working electrode portion defines an average working electrode width, and the working electrode neck defines a working electrode neck width that is reduced relative to the average working electrode width.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Randall K. Riggles, Abner D. Joseph, Scott E. Carpenter, Harvey E. Buck, JR., Georgeta C. Lica, Terry A. Beaty
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Patent number: 8789756Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: John T. Austera, Abner D. Joseph, Randall Riggles, Herbert Harttig, Hans List, Bernd Roesicke, Gerrit Kocherscheidt, Bruno Thoes, Jean-Michel Ashour
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Patent number: 8771793Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, techniques and processes for applying a wet film to a substrate using a slot die are provided. In one form, the air pressure around at least a portion of the discharge end of the slot die is adjustable by the application of a vacuum force in order to control the width and thickness of the wet film being applied to the substrate. In one aspect of this form, the wet film is a narrow, continuous stripe of reagent material applied to a moving web of the substrate from which a plurality of test elements will be obtained. However, different forms and applications are also envisioned.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Wilsey, Abner D. Joseph, Sergio Buccilli
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Patent number: 8765482Abstract: A test strip with a sample chamber is secured to a meter. The sample chamber in the portion of the test strip that extends out of the meter is illuminated by transmitting light from a light source inside the meter internally through the test strip towards the sample chamber. By way of analogy, the test strip acts in a fashion similar to a fiber optic cable or optical wave guide by transmitting the light from the meter to the remotely located sample chamber that extends outside the meter. The user is then able to easily see the sample chamber of the test strip in dark conditions so that the user is able to readily align the sample chamber with the drop of fluid on the skin as well as view the sample chamber in order to ensure proper filling. The light also illuminates a test strip slot into which the test strip is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Abner D. Joseph, Brian A. Heald
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Publication number: 20140054065Abstract: A method for manufacturing electrical circuit traces for use in electro-chemical sensors is disclosed, as well as electro-chemical sensors made from that method. The method includes providing a web, with a substrate and a thin, electrically conductive portion on the substrate. The web is positioned with a mask between it and a source of high frequency, non-laser photonic energy. The method discloses emitting at least one sub-millisecond burst of high frequency, non-laser photonic energy from said source toward the web with the mask therebetween. The photonic energy is substantially blocked by a photo-opaque portion of the mask. A portion of said non-laser photonic energy transmits with sufficient energy to ablate the portions of the electrically conductive portion exposed to the photonic energy, leaving the circuit traces on the web in the form of a repeating array of traces adapted for use in electro-chemical sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventor: Abner D. Joseph
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Patent number: 8394343Abstract: A blood glucose meter for providing easy access to test strips and measuring blood glucose, a disposable and removable cartridge for providing easy access to test strips, and methods of manufacturing and utilization thereof are disclosed. The blood glucose meter for providing easy access to test strips and measuring blood glucose has a disposable and removable cartridge, a retaining member which releasably retains the test strips in a stacked configuration, and a housing. The disposable and removable cartridge has a rigid lid attached to a flexible body.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Matthew C. Sauers, Abner D. Joseph, Christopher Wiegel
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Publication number: 20130027064Abstract: An analyte test sensor strip is disclosed having information coded thereon as well as a method of forming the same and conducting an analyte test using the analyte test sensor strip. Information relating to an attribute of the strip or batch/lot of strips may be coded based on resistance values pertaining to electrical aspects of the strip, such as a primary resistive element and a secondary resistive element, the secondary resistive element having one of a plurality of states defined by a location of a closed tap to form a unique resistive path for the secondary resistive element that includes a portion of the primary resistive element depending on the location of the closed tap. The states may be formed on the strip by a secondary processing step in the manufacture of the strip in which a plurality of taps are severed leaving only one tap in a closed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: John T. Austera, Terry A. Beaty, Abner D. Joseph, Nathan E. Manlove, Steven K. Moore, James L. Pauley, JR., Randall K. Riggles
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Publication number: 20120263879Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, techniques and processes for applying a wet film to a substrate using a slot die are provided. In one form, the air pressure around at least a portion of the discharge end of the slot die is adjustable by the application of a vacuum force in order to control the width and thickness of the wet film being applied to the substrate. In one aspect of this form, the wet film is a narrow, continuous stripe of reagent material applied to a moving web of the substrate from which a plurality of test elements will be obtained. However, different forms and applications are also envisioned.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Wilsey, Abner D. Joseph, Sergio Buccilli
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Publication number: 20110263006Abstract: A blood glucose meter for providing easy access to test strips and measuring blood glucose, a disposable and removable cartridge for providing easy access to test strips, and methods of manufacturing and utilization thereof are disclosed. The blood glucose meter for providing easy access to test strips and measuring blood glucose has a disposable and removable cartridge, a retaining member which releasably retains the test strips in a stacked configuration, and a housing. The disposable and removable cartridge has a rigid lid attached to a flexible body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Matthew C. Sauers, Abner D. Joseph, Christopher Wiegel
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Publication number: 20110174644Abstract: A test strip container with an insert comprising a channel and a retaining member and methods of manufacturing and utilization thereof are disclosed. The container includes a housing, an insert, a lid, and at least one retaining member in at least one channel. The at least one retaining member releasably retains a plurality of test strips in the at least one channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Matthew C. Sauers, Abner D. Joseph, Christopher Wiegel
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Publication number: 20110132778Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: John T. Austera, Abner D. Joseph, Randall Riggles, Herbert Harttig, Hans List, Bernd Roesicke, Gerrit Kocherscheidt, Bruno Thoes, Jean-Michel Asfour
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Patent number: D698459Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Abner D. Joseph