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Glucose-Sensing RFID Microchip Patent
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| Oct 25, 2006
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Posted on 10/25/2006 6:13:34 AM PDT by zek157
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Get chipped.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:13:35 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: zek157
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:14:58 AM PDT
by
misterrob
(Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
To: zek157; IslandJeff
YAY!
This is wonderful news!
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:16:21 AM PDT
by
JRochelle
(You can believe what you want, but you can't have your own facts!)
To: zek157
Great for diabetics.
Just a thought though - chips that can detect levels of certain chemicals in the blood may have other more intrusive uses as well.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:20:25 AM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: mollynme
Gee only 4 posts in to bring out the conspiracy theorists.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:27:14 AM PDT
by
misterrob
(Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
To: zek157
this is great, as a Type 1 diabetic under tight blood sugar control, this would save me from sticking my fingers 6 to 8 times a day!
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:27:35 AM PDT
by
Bottom_Gun
(Crush depth dummy - proud NRA member & Certified Instructor)
To: zek157
Wow.... Prolly a ways from the market, and plenty of hurdles to go, but my diabetic son could use something like this.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:28:55 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: zek157
Slave the output to an insulin pump and Voila! - an artificial pancreas.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:28:59 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
To: CholeraJoe
Great idea!
Really great for type 1.
I can still control my type 2 by diet.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:33:17 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: zek157; JRochelle; Bottom_Gun
Note of caution. Just because they got a patent doen't mean the technology either works or is practical (and it depends a GREAT deal on what was specifically patented). The patent may just be a "paper patent" with the idea of combining an "imaginary" glucose sensor with an implantable RFID chip.
The HUGE bug-bear for this approach is that there is, as yet, no known technology for glucose sensing with the necessary analytical reliability, ESPECIALLY in the relatively hostile environment of the human body (basically sea water).
My area of expertise is analytical chemistry, much of which has involved sensor design and development. A LOT of research has been done trying to come up with a really good, really reliable, accurate and precise sensor for glucose. AFAIK, no success yet.
To: zek157
Make one sensitive to ethanol, put a scanner in a car, and you'd reduce drunk driving incidents (the chip would be mandated by court order after judicial due process).
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:35:49 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Wonder Warthog; All
I checked www.freepatentsonline.com, and the patent has not been posted yet (you may wish to check back later).
You can get the text and drawings there. All of Digital Angels' US patents are there, you can see them by entering Digital Angel into the "assignee" box.
Wonder Warthog, you are right in being cautious. You do not need a working model or even a proof of concept to get a patent- you can patent just a concept to protect an idea, with no real product.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:43:27 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: zek157
If it works or if it at the least leads to something that works, it is great news for me. Type 1 since Sept '81.
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posted on
10/25/2006 6:53:28 AM PDT
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: zek157
Thanks for the stock tip! Just bought 2000 shares.
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posted on
10/25/2006 7:11:13 AM PDT
by
itslex71
(southern by birth, republican by the grace of my dad)
To: zek157
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posted on
10/25/2006 7:17:26 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none!)
To: zek157
This will be highly significant if it works as advertised. Diabetes is a horrible disease to have and must be monitored very closely. And we should all watch this closely; even those who are in the range of "pre-diabetes" which suggests full blown diabetes is a high risk. That's something everyone should keep their eye on and not just diagnosed diabetes. The range now has been lowered to anything over 100 on the glucose levels. About 126 and you're a diabetic for life. Mine is at 103 and I watch that very carefully and am trying to get it below 100 with some weight loss.
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posted on
10/25/2006 7:43:51 AM PDT
by
RichardW
To: RichardW
I wish you the best. My Father got it late in life and I've seen the problems that can occur.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:31:55 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: itslex71
Be carefulll on that. They have a very troubled history with the parent company. Follow your gain with a stop.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:33:59 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: zek157
Not what they need to do is install readers at donut shops and make the wearers insert a dollar bill each time they want to read the glucose level.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:40:24 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: mollynme
No reason why they couldn't just shift a molecule and have it read out blood alcohol level; then the state could require one for a driver's license - starting with convicted drunk drivers, of course with the incrementation to other drivers as the resistance decreases and the technology becomes humdrum.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:43:09 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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