US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on April 22 for "Non-invasive sensor and method for determining blood glucose" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,863, issued on April 22, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Non-invasive sensor and method for determining blood glucose" was invented by Murad Mohsen Althobaiti (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ibraheem Al-Naib (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-invasive glucose sensor used for glucose detection in a subject is provided. The sensor includes a long channel source to excite a first location of a skin and a long channel detector to detect near infrared (NIR) energy emitted from the first location of the skin. A short channel source excites a second location of the skin and a...