Patent ID: 11921272
Assignee: S.D. SIGHT DIAGNOSTICS LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 21:
22. Apparatus for use with a bodily sample and an output device, the apparatus comprising:
a sample carrier housing configured to carry the bodily sample, at least a portion of the sample carrier housing being configured to fluoresce, at least under certain conditions;
an optical measurement device configured to perform optical measurements upon a portion of the bodily sample that is housed within the sample carrier housing; and
at least one computer processor that is operatively coupled to the optical measurement device, the computer processor being configured, in response to detecting that an area of the portion of the sample carrier housing has been photobleached, to perform an action selected from the group consisting of: generating an output upon the output device indicating that at least a portion of the sample carrier housing is contaminated, generating an output upon the output device indicating that optical measurements cannot be performed on at least a portion of the sample that is housed within a given portion of the sample carrier housing, and preventing the optical measurement device from performing optical measurements upon at least a portion of the sample that is housed within a given portion of the sample carrier housing.