VITRO DIAGNOSTIC TEST STRIPS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ACCUTREND	ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH	Sandhofer Strasse 116 Mannheim 68305 Germany	in vitro diagnostic test strips for measuring levels of glucose or cholesterol in blood for medical purposes;ACCURATE TREND;medical apparatus, namely, hand-held blood glucose and cholesterol monitor for medical diagnostic purposes;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A dry-phase triglycerides test strip that can be stored at room or elevated temperatures for several months without significant degradation in its effectiveness. The test strip includes a test membrane which receives plasma and forms a colored response in proportion to concentration of triglycerides in the plasma. The test membrane is impregnated with an aqueous solution containing lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and 4-aminoantipyrine (4AAP). The inventors have found that by reducing the pH of the impregnating solution to less than that of the recommended pH range for one of the key components (viz., less than pH 6.0), overall stability of the test strips was dramatically improved. The improvement in storage capability of these triglycerides test strips represents not just a difference in degree, but a difference in kind.