ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,275, issued on April 29, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Analyte sensor sensitivity attenuation mitigation" was invented by Gary Alan Hayter (Oakland, Calif.), John Charles Mazza (Long Beach, Calif.) and Kenneth J. Doniger (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for receiving a first signal from a first working electrode of a glucose sensor positioned at a first predetermined position under the skin layer, receiving a second signal from a second working electrode of the glucose sensor positioned at a second predetermined position under the skin layer, the second signal rece...