US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on July 22 for "Close proximity communication device and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,529, issued on July 22, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Close proximity communication device and methods" was invented by Jeffery M. Sicurello (Union City, Calif.) and Mark K. Sloan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for receiving an encoded data packet, one or more activation commands, and a communication identifier, decoding the received data packet, validating the decoded received data packet, and executing one or more routines associated with the respective one or more activation commands."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 2023, under Applica...