US Patent Issued to Roche Diabetes Care on Feb. 3 for "Method of determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample of a body fluid using a camera and a color reference card" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,859, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Method of determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample of a body fluid using a camera and a color reference card" was invented by Max Berg (Mannheim, Germany), Fredrik Hailer (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), Bernhard Limburg (Soergenloch, Germany), Volker Tuerck (Berlin) and Momme Winkelnkemper (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample of a body fluid with a mobile device having a camera is disclosed. The camera captures an image of a color reference card and of a reagent test fie...