US Patent Issued to INSULET on Dec. 16 for "Meal bolus subcategories in model based insulin therapy" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,994, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Meal bolus subcategories in model based insulin therapy" was invented by Thomas Metzmaker (Harvard, Mass.), Nicholas Conte (Harvard, Mass.), Ian McLaughlin (Groton, Mass.), Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Paul Frederick Bente IV (Westford, Mass.), Ashutosh Zade (San Diego) and Steven Cardinali (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples that include receiving information related to ingestion of a meal. The information may include a coarse indication of a size of the meal, a relative time of ingestion of the meal, and a general composition ...