ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,132, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for early signal attenuation detection and processing" was invented by Wesley Scott Harper (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and apparatus for receiving sensor data from an analyte sensor of a sensor monitoring system, processing the received sensor data with time corresponding calibration data, outputting the processed sensor data, detecting one or more adverse conditions associated with the sensor monitoring system, disabling the output of the sensor data during the adverse condition time peri...