ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,111, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Continuous glucose monitoring system" was invented by Mark Sloan (Redwood City, Calif.), Marc B. Taub (Mountain View, Calif.), Gary A. Hayter (Oakland, Calif.), Wesley Scott Harper (Alameda, Calif.), Erwin S. Budiman (Fremont, Calif.) and Charles Wei (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for delaying alarms that include detecting an analyte level using an analyte sensor; and delaying the annunciation of an analyte alarm after the analyte level crosses an analyte threshold, wherein the delay is based on one or both of (1...