ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,173, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Displays for a medical device" was invented by Wesley Scott Harper (Alameda, Calif.), Annie C. Tan (Redwood City, Calif.), Timothy Christian Dunn (San Francisco), Mark Kent Sloan (Redwood City, Calif.), Kenneth J. Doniger (Menlo Park, Calif.), Michael Love (Pleasanton, Calif.), Phillip Yee (San Francisco), Gary Alan Hayter (Oakland, Calif.), R. Curtis Jennewine (Portland, Ore.) and Glenn Howard Berman (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to an analyte monitoring device having a user interface with a dis...