Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling the application of current and/or voltage to deliver drug from patient contacts of an electrotransport drug delivery device by indirectly controlling and/or monitoring the applied current without directly measuring from the cathode of the patient terminal. In particular, described herein are electrotransport drug delivery systems including constant current delivery systems having a feedback current and/or voltage control module that is isolated from the patient contacts (e.g., anodes and cathodes). The feedback module may be isolated by a transistor from the patient contacts; feedback current and/or voltage control measurements may be performed at the transistor rather than at the patient contact (e.g., cathode).

Abstract: A switch operated therapeutic agent delivery device is described. The device comprises two parts, which are assembled by a user prior to use. A first part contains a power supply and circuitry for the device; and a second part comprises electrodes and reservoirs containing the therapeutic agent to be delivered. The action of combining the two parts of the device causes the two parts to be irreversibly coupled together, completes an electrical connection between the two parts, and closes one or more switches, thereby connecting a power source, such as a battery, into the device's circuitry, thereby powering the device on so that it is ready for use. The device can then be attached to a patient, who can operate the device by pressing a button in a proper sequence.

Abstract: A switch operated therapeutic agent delivery device is described. The device comprises two parts, which are assembled by a user prior to use. A first part contains a power supply and circuitry for the device; and a second part comprises electrodes and reservoirs containing the therapeutic agent to be delivered. The action of combining the two parts of the device causes the two parts to be irreversibly coupled together, completes an electrical connection between the two parts, and closes one or more switches, thereby connecting a power source, such as a battery, into the device's circuitry, thereby powering the device on so that it is ready for use. The device can then be attached to a patient, who can operate the device by pressing a button in a proper sequence.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a system, apparatus, and method for subscribing to indicia related to a user experience or a peripheral device, in an embodiment a broadband wireless modem, recording selected indicia, and forwarding them to a server on a network. The system comprises a server coupled to a plurality of user terminals through a network, to receive a set of indicia, an apparatus for controlling a baseband/broadband processor, and a program product comprising instructions to adapt a central processing unit to perform as follows. In an embodiment, connecting to a broadband/baseband processor comprising issuing commands, subscribing to receive indicia, determining a condition has occurred, recording a plurality of indicia, forwarding a set of indicia to a destination on the network. Indicia includes measurement values, state changes, event occurrences, user actions, activity and inactivity at time stamped milestones, and sequences and combinations of the above.

Abstract: A system for determining the level of an analyte in a physiological fluid of a live individual is described. A wearable sensor periodically obtains data representative of the level of the analyte and has a passive RFID tag that stores the data. A receiver wirelessly interrogates the sensor with an RF interrogation signal. The RFID tag modulates or otherwise modifies the wireless interrogation signal using the data and the receiver receives back the modulated or otherwise modified interrogation signal and extracts the data from it. The receiver then determines, from the data, the level of the analyte in the fluid. The sensor may be a photometric or colorimetric sensor or an electrochemical sensor. The receiver may be, or be incorporated into, a hand-held device, a portable device, a PDA, a mobile telephone, or a laptop computer. The resulting system is more versatile and consumes less power than conventional systems.

Abstract: A kinematic adhesive fluorescence measurement patch for use with a fluorescent light-emitting bead implanted within a user's body includes an adhesive plate for removable adhesion to the user's body and an optical plate. The optical plate includes a rigid member with a light emitter and light detectors attached thereto. The light emitter of the optical plate is configured for emitting light that is absorbed by the fluorescent light-emitting bead while the light detector is configured for detecting fluorescent light emitted by the fluorescent light-emitting bead. In addition, the adhesive plate and optical plate are configured for kinematic attachment, detachment and kinematic reattachment to one another via a cone-shaped indent, a slot shaped indent, and a flat independently disposed on one of the adhesive or optical plates in opposition to one of three spherical components disposed on the other of the adhesive and optical plates.

Abstract: A kinematic fluorescence measurement band for use with a fluorescent light-emitting bead implanted within a user's body includes a band configured for secure and removable positioned about a portion of the user's body, a base plate configured for attachment to the band and an optical plate. The optical plate includes a rigid member with a light emitter and a light detector attached thereto. The light emitter of the optical plate is configured for emitting light that is absorbed by the fluorescent light-emitting bead while the light detector is configured for detecting fluorescent light emitted by the fluorescent light-emitting bead.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a fluorescent light-emitting bead implanted in a user's body includes removably adhering an adhesive plate of a kinematic adhesive fluorescence measurement patch to a user's body. The method also includes attaching an optical plate of the kinematic adhesive fluorescence measurement patch to the adhered adhesive plate in a kinematic manner such that the optical plate is in operative alignment with the fluorescent light-emitting bead and, thereafter, monitoring the fluorescent light-emitting bead by emitting incident light from the light emitter and detecting fluorescent light emitted from the fluorescent light-emitting bead with the light detector. In addition, the method optionally includes detaching the optical plate from the adhered adhesive plate and reattaching the optical plate in a kinematic manner.

Abstract: A multibeam photometric measuring device includes a single light source along with a filter assembly for passing only a desired band of wavelengths and an optical system for suitably focusing light from the light source. Light is transmitted individually to each of a plurality of sites disposed on a multi-well sample plate. Enhancement of color distribution is provided by automatic agitation of the reacting agents within the sample wells before a reading is taken at each of the sampling intervals of a kinetic measurement sequence.

Abstract: An automatic test equipment for the functional testing of electrical printed circuit board assemblies is constructed as the combination of a programmable controller based upon a microcomputer and selected interface modules which can be plugged into the controller system backplane in any of a number of module interconnection locations and in any combination of module types with the controller being adapted to interrogate the modules as to their type and location and organize its routines accordingly. The controller has an advantageous bus structure for resource sharing within the equipment, and provides facilities for various forms of input/output modules as well as for analog stimulus/response modules, programmable waveform generator modules, signature analysis and frequency measurement modules, real time emulation modules, etc., and for the connection of computer standard utilities such as keyboard, light-pen graphics, printer, etc.

Abstract: An in-circuit testing apparatus (manufacturing defects analyzer) for the determination of manufacturing defects in an electrical circuit board such as short circuits, tracking faults, mininserted omitted and out-of tolerance components etc., and not for effecting full functional testing of the circuit board, comprises an array of bidirectionally current conducting analog switching networks each of which defines a test point for connection to a node of a circuit board and connectable, under software control of the respective switchng network, either to a stimulus source or to a reference (e.g. ground) potential and simultaneously also to an input of a measurement facility. A resistor, capacitor, inductor or other circuit component can be connected between the test points defined by two of the switching networks and can thus be subjected to an appropriate stimulus and its response measured and analyzed for determining the viability of the respective component.