Patent ID: 8632730

Claim:
A diagnostic test system, comprising: a receptacle; an assay test strip positioned in the receptacle and having multiple capture regions which specifically bind to one or more target analytes and which produce a light when the target analyte is immobilized in the capture region; a plurality of optical detectors each having a corresponding view of a capture region and adapted to produce an electrical signal at a respective detector output in response to light produced from at least a portion of the capture region; signal conditioning circuits coupled between respective ones of the detector outputs and respective ones of logic inputs; and a logic circuit comprising: a plurality of logic inputs respectively coupled to the signal conditioning circuits; and transistors respectively coupled to the plurality of logic inputs, wherein the transistors turn on if the logic circuit inputs are charged to a voltage level that exceeds a threshold voltage of the transistors; wherein the logic circuit is configured to produce at least one output logic signal that corresponds to a logical combination of electrical signals produced from the capture regions and received at the plurality of logic inputs.