Patent ID: 6780645
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
A diagnostic kit for measuring a characteristic of a fluid sample, the diagnostic kit comprising:a test strip with a test strip calibration code assigned thereto; and a device for measuring at least one property of the test strip and calculating, therefrom, a characteristic of a fluid sample applied to the test strip, the device including: a memory with a plurality of test strip calibration codes, including the test strip calibration code assigned to the test strip, stored therein, wherein each of the test strip calibration codes in the memory are mathematically manipulated in the device to represent a geometric region of a calibration parameter space, wherein the geometric regions are formed by a boundary of a set of points representing values of calibration parameters of maximum permissible error, and wherein the test strip calibration codes and geometric regions are distributed across the calibration parameter space such that a quantization error of having assigned the test strip calibration code to the test strip is optimally reduced.