Given the nature of patents, it’s hard to tell if Google (now Alphabet)
is actually working on this device at all. If the company does decide
to move ahead with this, however, it might have to readjust its design.
Right now, the wrist wearable featured in the patent looks like an
oversized Moto 360 from hell.Google might be joining the needle-free blood test party. The company has filed a patent
for a “needle-free blood draw” system that can be used either as a
wearable on a person’s wrist or as a hand-held device that takes blood
from a fingertip or other parts of the body.
The
patent, which was published today and is still pending, describes a
blood draw system that works by sending a surge of gas into a barrel
containing a micro-particle that pierces the skin. Once blood is
released from the skin, it’s sucked up into the negative pressure
barrel. “Such an application might be used to draw a small amount of
blood, for example, for a glucose test,” Google explains. This means
that the technology could end up being used to help people with
diabetes.
We emailed Google about to ask about this, and a spokesperson
replied “we hold patents on a variety of ideas — some of those ideas
later mature into real products or services, some don’t. Prospective
product announcements should not necessarily be inferred from our
patents.”
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