Patent ID: 11914131
Assignee: nan
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  C | IPC A  C  G

Claim 4:
5. A disease testing device for determination from a specimen collected form a test subject which has not been treated whether a test subject has a disease for which the test subject is being tested, comprising:
a protective housing with a collector receipt opening for releasable receipt of a specimen collector, having a hollow body with a collection end and an examination end, when the examination end has a specimen obtained from oral exhalations of a test subject through an opening at the collection end and passing through the hollow body of the specimen collector to the examination end;, collected with no treatment a collector receptacle within the protective housing aligned with the collector receipt opening in the protective housing for sliding receipt the tubular specimen collector into engagement with the receptacle for securely holding the examination end specimen at a precise, stationary examination location;
a light source within the housing for illuminating the specimen at the examination end of the collector when received within the housing and being securely held within the receptacle;
means including a microscope with an objective lens for obtaining a magnified view of a configuration to the collected specimen at the examination end of the collector;
a digital camera for making at least one magnified high-resolution digital photograph of the magnified view of the collected specimen at the examination end of the collector;
a collected configuration memory for storing the at least one high-resolution digital photograph;
a known pathogen configuration memory for storing a high resolution digital picture of a configuration at least one known specimen of at least one known disease obtained from a person known to have the known disease;
means including a local microprocessor for comparing the digital photograph of the collected specimen stored in the collected specimen configuration memory with the high resolution digital photograph of the at least one known specimen; and
means responsive to the comparing means for providing an indication of whether or not the configuration of the known specimen corresponds to the configuration of the collected specimen.