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

Claim 9:
10. A specimen collector forming part of a disease testing system for determining whether a test subject is infected with a pathogen,
said collector being releasably being releasably insertable into the housing the disease testing system, said testing system including
an electronic testing device having
a housing,
a microscope to form magnified enlarged visual images of the specimen,
an examination port hole for receipt of at least an examination end of the collector housing into an examination location at which the specimen can be viewed by the microscope to form at least one magnified enlarged visual image, and

a local microcomputer with
software responsive to the at least one enlarged visual image to determine whether the at least one magnified enlarged visual image contains any indications of infectious disease, or
software capable of communicating the at least one visual image to a remote computer with software responsive to the at least one visual image to make a determination of whether the at least one visual image contains any indications of infectious disease and reporting back said determination to the local computer, and

means responsive to the local computer to provide an indication of said determination,
said specimen collector, comprising:
a housing with a tubular body,
a specimen receipt opening at a collection end of the tubular body for receiving, within the tubular body, a specimen of bodily fluids exhaled from the mouth of the test subject;
an examination opening at an examination end of the tubular body located oppositely of the specimen receipt opening;
a specimen collection tray carried by the tubular body adjacent the examination end; and
a readily removable anticontamination seal attached to the examination end of the tubular body to protectively close the examination opening to protect the collection tray from contamination; and
an examination port hole for receipt of at least the examination end of the collector housing into an examination location at which the specimen can be viewed by the microscope to form the at least one magnified enlarged visual image.