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Method for glucose sensing
   
Document Number
US Patent 5989409
Issued Date
November 23, 1999
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A method for measuring the concentration of glucose diffused from a source to a working electrode which assembly includes a scavenging electrode is disclosed. The electrode of the invention is comprised of 1) a working electrode; 2) a scavenging electrode; 3) an electroosmotic electrode; and 4) a electrically insulating gap defined by adjacent edges of 1) and 2) and electrically isolating 1) and 2). The scavenging electrode substantially reduces or eliminates "edge-effects" or error in signal transported to the working electrode via a path which includes a radial vector component, i.e., eliminates chemical signal other than that which moves to the catalytic surface of the working electrode via a path which is substantially perpendicular to catalytic surface of the working electrode.
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Owner
Cygnus, Inc. (Redwood City, CA)
Published
November 23, 1999
Application Number
08/526,732
Filed
September 11, 1995
US Classification
205/792   204/403.04 204/403.11 204/403.14 204/412 205/777.5 600/347 600/368 604/20
Int'l Classification
G01N   27/30   (20060101)  
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USPTO Field of Search
604/20   604/289   604/290   204/412   204/403   204/231   128/637   205/792  
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