Modular analyte measurement system with extendable strip port

• US 9,103,777 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2014
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories)
• Original Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories)
• Inventors: Ralston, Hila, Arbogast, Frederic, Simmons, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Dieterle, Jennifer
• Application Number:
  US14/248,855
• Publication Number:
  US 20140216951A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/045 Newborns, e.g. premature baby monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0443 Modular apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/045 with a separable interface unit, e.g. for communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0456 Apparatus provided with a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/222 Electrical cables or leads therefor, e.g. coaxial cables or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0017 transmitting optical signals transmission by light H04B10/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• 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 5/151 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 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/96 using barcodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 11/00 Baby-incubators; Couveuses
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/416 : Systems G01N27/27 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48792 : Data management, e.g. communication with processing unit for in vivo diagnostics A61B5/0002; transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/49 : Blood chemical methods for determining blood cell populations G01N33/5094; chemical analysis of blood groups or blood types G01N33/80
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/64 : involving ketones
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 : involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 : ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 : for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 : for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/144444 : Glucose
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/200833 : Carbonyl, ether, aldehyde or ketone containing

Abstract

A modular analyte measurement system having a removable strip port module. In one embodiment, the analyte measurement system includes: an analyte meter; a removable strip port module; and a connector linking the removable strip port module to the analyte meter. The analyte meter includes: a meter housing; a receptacle formed in the meter housing; a processing circuit disposed within the housing; and an input interface within the receptacle and electrically coupled to the processing circuit. The removable strip port module includes: a module housing sized to at least partially fit within the receptacle of the analyte meter; an analyte test strip port disposed within the module housing to receive an analyte test strip via an aperture formed in the module housing; and an output interface coupled to the analyte test strip port. The connector links the output interface with the input interface.

Claims

1. A method of using an analyte measurement system, the method comprising:

removing a first replaceable strip port module from a strip port cavity of a housing of an analyte meter, wherein the analyte meter comprises the housing and electrical connections disposed with the strip port cavity within the housing, wherein the analyte meter lacks an integrated analyte test strip port in the meter housing, the first replaceable strip port module comprises;

a module housing comprising an interface aperture,

an analyte test strip port, and

an electrical interface comprising a plurality of electrical contacts coupled to the analyte test strip port within the module housing and extending from the test strip port to the interface aperture; and

positioning a second replaceable strip port module in the analyte meter housing, wherein the second replaceable strip port module comprises;

an output interface positioned wholly within the meter housing of the analyte meter and in electrical communication with the input interface of the analyte meter,

an analyte test strip port disposed external to the meter housing of the analyte meter, and

a connector linking the output interface at a distal end and the analyte test strip port at a proximal end.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte test strip is a glucose test strip.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte test strip is a ketone test strip.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the connector is a retractable cord.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte meter comprises a health management communication interface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the health management communication interface is a wired interface.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the health management communication interface is a wireless interface.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the health management communication interface is a wireless interface configured for communication via radio frequency communication, Zigbee communication protocols, WiFi, infrared, wireless Universal Serial Bus, Ultra Wide Band, Bluetooth®

communication protocols, or cellular communication protocols.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the system comprises a docking station for the analyte meter.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the docking station comprises a transmitter that transmits data over a data network.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the docking station comprises a battery charger.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte meter comprises a user interface.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user interface is a touchscreen monitor.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte test strip port comprises a test strip ejector.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte test strip port comprises a sealing member.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyte test strip port comprises an internal beveled face.