US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on Sept. 9 for "Focused sterilization and sterilized sub-assemblies for analyte monitoring systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,847, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Focused sterilization and sterilized sub-assemblies for analyte monitoring systems" was invented by Christopher A. Thomas (Alameda, Calif.), Louis Pace (San Carlos, Calif.), Vincent M. Dipalma (Oakland, Calif.), Vivek S. Rao (Alameda, Calif.), Steven T. Mitchell (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Peter G. Robinson (Alamo, Calif.), Matthew Simmons (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jorn Meissner (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor applicator, a sensor control device arranged within the sensor applicator and including an electro...