ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,331, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Glucose alert prediction horizon modification" was invented by Lauren Hruby Jepson (San Diego), Sarah Kate Pickus (Henderson, Nev.) and Joost van der Linden (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data describing glucose measurements is received from a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system worn by a user and predicted glucose values during a future time period are generated for the user based on the data. A determination is made that at least one of the predicted glucose values satisfies a threshold value for an alert, which is associated with a prediction horiz...