ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,497, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Indicator and analytics for sensor insertion in a continuous analyte monitoring system and related methods" was invented by Katherine Yerre Koehler (Solana Beach, Calif.), Leif N. Bowman (San Diego), Rian Draeger (San Diego), Laura Dunn (San Diego) and Eli Reihman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments provide systems and methods for, among others, tracking sensor insertion locations in a continuous analyte monitoring system. Data gathered from sensor sessions can be used in different ways, such as providing a user with a suggested rotation o...