1f84:1f7e — Lateral Flow Engine

This is the USB identifier for a Lateral Flow Engine manufactured by Alere, Inc.. The vendor ID 1f84 is registered to Alere, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1f7e is the product ID that Alere, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1f84:1f7e Alere, Inc. Lateral Flow Engine.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1f84:1f7e Alere, Inc. Lateral Flow Engine

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1f84:1f7e, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1f84:1f7e. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1f84, idProduct=1f7e.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_1F84&PID_1F7E
USB\VID_1F84&PID_1F7E&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1F84&PID_1F7E"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Lateral Flow Engine:
      Product ID: 0x1f7e
      Vendor ID: 0x1f84  (Alere, Inc.)

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

1f84  Alere, Inc.
	1f7e  Lateral Flow Engine

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