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Gentag’s Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) Patent for Diagnostics with Cell Phones Issues

New platform could make accurate point-of-care diagnostics instantly available to anyone with a cell phone.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gentag, Inc. announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 9,470,699. This is the company’s 76th issued patent in the area of diagnostics with cell phones. This new patent, which covers both advanced biomarker and DNA-level detection with smartphone-based diagnostics, further enhances the company’s already significant intellectual property holdings of near field communication (NFC) mobile phone sensor technologies, including patents on wearable NFC diagnostic skin patches, immunoassays, lab-on-a-chi...

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