Providing an ID-verified blood test

• US 8,934,682 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Baughman, Aaron K., Malkin, Peter K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Desire, Gregory M
• Application Number:
  US13/550,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002235A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 382/124, 382/218, 600/110, 600/132, 600/310, 600/323, 600/583
• US Class Current: 382/124
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/22 Motor vehicles operators, e.g. drivers, pilots, captains
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1172 using fingerprinting
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14503 invasive, e.g. introduced into the body by a catheter or needle or using implanted sensors A61B5/1459, A61B5/1464, A61B5/1473, A61B5/1482, A61B5/14865 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150358 Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent optical reagent test strips G01N21/8483; chemical reagent test strips G01N33/4875, G01N33/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150389 Hollow piercing elements, e.g. canulas, needles, for piercing the skin
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150503 Single-ended needles hollow piercing element tip design A61B5/150396, needle sets for catheters A61M25/06, needles for bringing media into the body A61M5/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150786 Optical identification systems, e.g. bar codes, colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150862 intermediate range, e.g. within room or building
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/151 Devices specially adapted for taking samples of capillary blood, e.g. by lancets , needles or blades
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4845 Toxicology, e.g. by detection of alcohol, drug or toxic products A61B5/4848 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/12 Fingerprints or palmprints

Abstract

Providing an ID-verified blood test, in one aspect, may include enabling a user to press a finger against a fingerprint-reading panel and reading a fingerprint of the user. A blood sampling device coupled to the fingerprint-reading panel may be activated while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel to sample blood from the finger. Blood may be sampled from the user via the blood sampling device while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel. A test may be performed on the sampled blood to determine a level of specified chemical in the blood. User identification may be determined based on the fingerprint. The determined user identification and the level of the specified chemical may be returned.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing an ID-verified blood test, comprising:

a fingerprint-reading panel operable to read a fingerprint of a user in response to the user pressing a finger on the fingerprint-reading panel;

a blood sampling device coupled to the fingerprint-reading panel, the blood sampling device operable to sample blood from a user'"'"'s finger while the user'"'"'s finger is pressed against the fingerprint-reading panel; and

a processing element operable to determine user identification based on the fingerprint and further operable to perform a test on the sampled blood to determine a level of specified chemical in the blood,

wherein the apparatus is included in a key given to the user for activating a machine,

wherein the key is operable to read and sample, in response to the user inserting the key into a receptacle of the machine,

wherein the key activates the machine only if the determined user identification matches a pre-stored identification associated with the key given to the user and the determined level of alcohol meets a threshold criterion.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the machine includes an automobile, a heavy machinery equipment, or a transportation vehicle, or combinations thereof.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the specified chemical includes alcohol.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the specified chemical includes sugar.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the specified chemical includes a drug.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the blood sampling device includes a hypodermic needle.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the blood sampling device includes an infrared detector.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user is required to continue to keep the finger pressed against the fingerprint reading panel until the sampling of the blood is completed.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the key is associated with a single user.

10. A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of providing an ID-verified blood test, comprising:

enabling a user to press a finger against a fingerprint-reading panel incorporated in a key provided for use only by a particular individual, the key for activating a machine;

reading a fingerprint of the user;

activating a blood sampling device coupled to the fingerprint-reading panel while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel to sample blood from the finger after the fingerprint is read;

sampling blood from the user via the blood sampling device while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel;

performing a test on the sampled blood to determine a level of specified chemical in the blood;

determining user identification based on the fingerprint; and

activating the key to actuate the machine only if the determined user identification matches the particular individual associated with the key and the determined level of specified chemical meets a threshold criterion,

wherein the reading, the activating of the blood sample device, the sampling, the performing and the determining are performed in response to the user inserting the key into a receptacle of the machine.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the machine includes an automobile, a heavy machinery equipment, or a transportation vehicle, or combinations thereof.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the specified chemical includes alcohol.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the specified chemical includes sugar.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the specified chemical includes a drug.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the blood sampling device includes a hypodermic needle.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the blood sampling device includes an infrared detector.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the user is required to continue to keep the finger pressed against the fingerprint reading panel until the sampling of the blood is completed.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the key is associated with a single user.

19. An apparatus for providing an ID-verified specimen sample test, comprising:

a scanner operable to read an identification print from a body portion of a user in response to the user pressing the body portion on the scanner;

a specimen sampling device coupled to the scanner, the specimen sampling device operable to sample specimen from the body portion while the user has the body portion pressed against the scanner; and

a processing element operable to determine user identification based on the scanned identification print and further operable to perform a test on the sampled specimen to determine a level of specified chemical in the specimen sample,

wherein the apparatus is included in a key given to the user for activating a machine,

wherein the key is operable to read and sample, in response to the user inserting the key into a receptacle of the machine

wherein the key activates the machine only if the determined user identification matches a pre-stored identification associated with the key given to the user and the determined level of alcohol meets a threshold criterion.