US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on July 15 for "Over-the-air programming of sensing devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,683, issued on July 15, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Over-the-air programming of sensing devices" was invented by Xuandong Hua (Mountain View, Calif.), Kurt E. Leno (San Leandro, Calif.) and Nelson Y. Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include a sensor control device configured for secure over-the-air (OTA) programming. Embodiments include a sensor control device that includes one or more processors, an analyte sensor, a communication module, and a memory. The memory includes a first set of storage blocks that are in a non-programmable state and a second...