US 12,078,647 B2
Assay system including assay apparatus and handheld single use assay devices for use therewith
Menachem Lev-Sagie, Lapid (IL); Nimrod Lev, Savion (IL); Tal Shlomovitz, Tel Aviv (IL); and Zohar Horowitz Limor, Even Yehuda (IL)
Assigned to GYNTOOLS LTD, Jerusalem (IL)
Filed by Gyntools Ltd, Jeruslaem (IL)
Filed on May 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,007.
Application 17/744,007 is a division of application No. 16/725,663, filed on Dec. 23, 2019, granted, now 11,346,850.
Application 16/725,663 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IL2018/050671, filed on Jun. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 253067 (IL), filed on Jun. 21, 2017; and application No. 270300 (IL), filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0268793 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 31/22 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01); G01N 21/33 (2006.01); G01N 21/35 (2014.01); G01N 23/083 (2018.01)
CPC G01N 35/00029 (2013.01) [G01N 31/221 (2013.01); G01N 35/00584 (2013.01); G01N 35/1002 (2013.01); G01N 35/1081 (2013.01); G01N 21/33 (2013.01); G01N 21/35 (2013.01); G01N 23/083 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00039 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00138 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assay device for enabling electromagnetic radiation (EMR) examination of a bodily specimen at at least one predetermined EMR spectrum along an upright line of examination, the assay device having an upright assay device centerline and a horizontal longitudinal assay device centerline perpendicular to the upright line of examination, the assay device comprising:
(a) a handheld cartridge housing having a cartridge housing top face, a cartridge housing bottom face opposite said cartridge housing top face, and a cartridge housing peripheral face between said cartridge housing top face and said cartridge housing bottom face to bound a cartridge housing interior,
said cartridge housing top face and said cartridge housing bottom face being transverse to the upright assay device centerline and said cartridge housing peripheral face being co-directional with the upright assay device centerline,
said cartridge housing having a specimen introduction port in said housing peripheral face for enabling introduction of the bodily specimen into said cartridge housing interior; and
(b) a single specimen slide snugly continuously accommodated in said cartridge housing interior and capable of sliding linear elevation from an initial lowermost specimen introduction position in an unused assay device to a final uppermost specimen examination position in a used assay device correspondingly remote from and adjacent said cartridge housing top face,
said specimen slide having the bodily specimen deposited thereon through said specimen introduction port in said initial lowermost specimen introduction position, and
said specimen slide being intimately juxtaposed against said cartridge housing top face in said final uppermost specimen examination position for compressing at least some bodily specimen between said specimen slide and said cartridge housing top face,
for enabling examination of said compressed at least some bodily specimen at the at least one predetermined EMR spectrum along the upright line of examination.