ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,850, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Methods of lag-compensation for analyte measurements, and devices related thereto" was invented by Erwin S. Budiman (Fremont, Calif.) and David L. Li (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods comprising applying a first analyte point measurement filter comprising: receiving, from an in vivo analyte sensor, at least a first, second, and third uncompensated analyte measurement at a first, second and third reference time; determining a first scaled rate-of-change by multiplying a first weighting coefficient and a first rate-of-change, t...