Patent ID: 8239582
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: A61B,G01N

Abstract:
1. A hand-held test meter for use with an analytical test strip in the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample, the hand-held test meter comprising: a universal serial bus (USB) interface; a microcontroller block configured for boot strap loading (BSL) of data into the hand-held test meter via a serial signal; and a circuit disruption avoidance block that includes at least: wherein at least two of the GPIO are configured to provide BSL control signals to the microcontroller block via the BSL enable gate/buffer sub-block; wherein the USB to serial bridge sub-block is configured to send the data to the microcontroller block via the at least one serial output; and wherein the circuit disruption avoidance block is configured to prevent USB connection related spurious signals from disrupting the hand-held meter functionality.