ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,811, issued on June 24.

"Measuring device for determining the blood sugar content" was invented by Monika Gericke Estermann (Zurich, Switzerland) and Ivan Ivanowitsch Turkovski (Zollikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring device determines an estimated value for a person's blood sugar content using a non-invasive impedance measurement. The measuring device includes a measurement transducer for determining a blood sugar content from a measured value and a sensor unit for detecting the measured value. The sensor unit has at least two tetrapolar electrode assemblies, each having at least two electrode pairs arranged...