ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,722, issued on May 27, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods with duration-based adjustment of sensor data" was invented by Erwin S. Budiman (Fremont, Calif.), Claire Bhogal (Witney, Great Britain), Steven Scott (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Marc B. Taub (Boars Hill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments that compensate for changes to sensor response characteristics (e.g., sensitivity) due to time durations are disclosed. The time durations can be the amount of time the sensor is in a post-manufacture packaged state prior to use, or the amount of time the sensor is i...