ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,143, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Advanced analyte sensor calibration and error detection" was invented by Sebastian Bohm (Cardiff, Calif.), Daiting Rong (San Diego) and Peter C Simpson (Cardiff, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing sensor data and self-calibration are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided which are capable of calibrating a continuous analyte sensor based on an initial sensitivity, and then continuously performing self-calibration without using, or with reduced use of, reference measurements. In certain embodiments, a sensitiv...