ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,813, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Methods and apparatus enabling coupling of an electronics unit to a base unit of a continuous analyte monitoring device" was invented by Dragan Avirovikj (Stamford, Conn.), Eugene Prais (West Milford, N.J.) and Nicholas Erekovcanski (Butler, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling tool for coupling together an electronics unit and a base unit of a wearable device for continuous analyte monitoring includes a carrier comprising a receiving feature and a carrier retention device, the carrier retention device configured to retain an...