Patents by Inventor Steven R. Arbuckle

Steven R. Arbuckle 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).

  • Method for reading the concentration of a medically significant component of a biological fluid from a test strip
    Patent number: 5379214
    Abstract: A method of communicating with one or more microcomputer (200) controlled instruments (10) for determining the concentration of a medically significant component of a body fluid. Each instrument (10) includes a port (220) through which instructions and data can be received from, and transmitted to, an external device. The method comprises the steps of transmitting to each instrument (10) an attention protocol for advising each instrument (10) that a further instruction is to be transmitted, transmitting one of a global address to all of such instruments (10) and an address unique to one of such instruments (10), and transmitting an instruction to all of the instruments (10) or to the above-mentioned one instrument (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Boehringer Mannheim Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Arbuckle, Michael E. Grant, Richard Riedel, Roger L. Hammer
  • Meter verification method and apparatus
    Patent number: 5284770
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for verifying the operating accuracy of an instrument (10) for detecting the concentration of a medically significant component of a body fluid. The instrument (10) operates by determining the remission of a reacted chemistry contained on a substrate (106) after the chemistry has reacted with the medically significant component of the body fluid. The instrument (10) includes a radiation source (182), a radiation detector (300) and a pathway (164) from the radiation source (182) to the chemistry (106) and from the chemistry (106) to the radiation detector (300) when the substrate (106) is properly inserted into the instrument (10). The remission of the chemistry (106) determines the radiation detected by the radiation detector (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Boehringer Mannheim Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford C. Adrian, Joe E. Anderson, Steven R. Arbuckle, Timothy L. Beck, William R. Boyd, Prafulla D. Goradia, Michael E. Grant, Russell T. Gray, Richard Riedel, Tyrie R. Robbins, Stephen D. Scopatz, Sandra E. Sowa, John W. Stoughton, Robert C. Yates
  • Apparatus and method for analyzing a body fluid
    Patent number: 5246858
    Abstract: A method and apparatus (10) for determining the remission of a chemistry (106) which reacts with a medically significant component of a body fluid. The remission of the chemistry (106) changes as it reacts. The method and apparatus (10) include irradiating the chemistry (106) with a radiation source (182), detecting remissions of radiation from the chemistry (106) with a radiation detector (300), providing a radiation pathway (164) between the source (182) and the chemistry (106), providing a remission pathway (164) between the chemistry (106) and the detector (300), and detecting the rate of change of remission of the chemistry (106) with respect to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Boehringer Mannheim Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Arbuckle, William R. Boyd, Michael E. Grant, Mark A. Gregory, Russell T. Gray, Friedrich Jost, Daniel L. Kennedy, Dino Perin, Richard Riedel, David E. Storvick, John W. Stoughton