US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on Dec. 16 for "Systems, devices and methods for analyte sensor insertion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,993, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for analyte sensor insertion" was invented by Vivek S. Rao (Alameda, Calif.), Louis G. Pace (San Carlos, Calif.), Hyun Cho (Berkeley, Calif.), Benjamin Jay Feldman (Berkeley, Calif.), Yi Wang (San Ramon, Calif.) and Tuan Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods are provided for inserting at least a portion of an in vivo analyte sensor, such as a dermal sensor, for sensing an analyte level in a bodily fluid of a subject. An applicator is positioned against a skin surface and a f...