Patent 7429465 was granted and assigned to Novartis on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention concerns a process for analyzing an analyte in a hydrogel contact lens following its wear on the eye, comprising the steps of(a) physically or chemically inducing a volume reduction of the hydrogel contact lens and thereby squeezing the analyte out of the polymer material making up the contact lens and(b) feeding the analyte obtained according to step (a) into an analyzer.