US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on July 22 for "Medical device antenna systems having external antenna configurations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,815, issued on July 22, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Medical device antenna systems having external antenna configurations" was invented by Nathan C. Crouther (San Francisco), Marc B. Taub (Mountain View, Calif.) and Lei He (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes an antenna external to a case, package, or encapsulant for the electronic systems of the medical device. In one embodiment, a diabetes infusion pump is enclosed within a metal case, the pump including a processor and a communication module for wireless communications. An antenna is disposed in the delivery tub...